This comparative report is the result of an OECD thematic review of adult learning policies and practices in 17 OECD countries, undertaken between 1999 and 2004. The main focus of the review was on clarifying access to, and participation in, education and training by adults and on providing ideas for enhancing policies and approaches to increase incentives for adults to undertake learning in these countries. It also aimed to provide ideas on how to improve learning opportunities for low skilled adults and facilitate employability. The report examines potential barriers to learning as well as t
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This comparative report is the result of an OECD thematic review of adult learning policies and practices in 17 OECD countries, undertaken between 1999 and 2004. The main focus of the review was on clarifying access to, and participation in, education and training by adults and on providing ideas for enhancing policies and approaches to increase incentives for adults to undertake learning in these countries. It also aimed to provide ideas on how to improve learning opportunities for low skilled adults and facilitate employability. The report examines potential barriers to learning as well as the policies designed to overcome them. These policies include those aimed at increasing and promoting the benefits of adult learning to make them transparent and easily recognised. Others include economic incentives and co-financing approaches that can improve the efficiency of adult learning provision, while still providing quality learning suited to the needs of adult learners. Finally, the report suggests that policy making can be improved through coordination and coherence in an area of education that is populated by a wide variety of stakeholders, including ministries of education and ministries of labour. The chapters are: Introduction; Participation in adult learning: the figures and the problems; Increasing and promoting the benefits of adult learning; Financing adult learning; Improving delivery and quality control; Ensuring policy co-ordination and coherence.
This report follows up the 2003 OECD report, 'Beyond rhetoric: adult learning policies and practices', (indexed at TD/TNC 73.63), that covered adult learning policy-making in nine OECD countries.
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