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Continuing education and training is the learning provided to an individual after they have completed their initial formal education or training. It may be for reasons including: to provide additional skills to begin or change career; for professional development; and for personal growth.
Research
Access items in VOCEDplus
- Adult and community education
- Continuous vocational education and training (CVET)
- Employability
- Professional development
- Providers of education and training
- Teacher training
- Workplace education and training
- Workplace learning
Recent publications
- Adult learning and qualifications in Britain
- Continuing professional education: enduring challenges, new developments, and future vistas [US]
- Continuing professional education in Australia: a tale of missed opportunities
- Continuing Vocational Training Survey: CVTS 5 [UK]
- In-firm training, innovation and productivity: the case of Caribbean Small Island Developing States
- Making 'good' choices: the impact of entitlement models on up-skilling later in life [Australia]
- Occupational and educational biographies of older workers and their participation in further education in Germany
- Profile and trends 2016: New Zealand's workplace-based learners (part 3 of 6)
- Supporting learning across working life: models, processes and practices
- Supporting teachers and trainers for successful reforms and quality of VET: mapping their professional development in the EU
- The culture of employee learning: which way for South Africa?
- Towards more effective continuing education and training for Australian workers
- Training and employee mobility in the British private and public sectors
- Upskilling and retraining [Australia]
- Work-based learning in continuing vocational education and training: policies and practices in Europe
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Adult learning and education: Canada progress report for the UNESCO Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) and the end of the United Nations Literacy Decade
- Adult learning and the changing world of work [Europe]
- From literacy to lifelong learning: trends, issues and challenges in youth and adult education in Latin America and the Caribbean: regional synthesis report
- Policy handbook: access to and participation in continuous vocational education and training (CVET) in Europe
- Recognising the value of lifelong learning for all: New South Wales government policy on adult and community education
- Staying smart: how today's graduates continue to learn once they complete college [US]
- White paper for post-school education and training: building an expanded, effective and integrated post-school system [South Africa]
Resources
- Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training [US]
- American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)
- Australian national landmark reports
- European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
- Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) [Germany]
- International journal of continuing education and lifelong learning
- Journal of continuing higher education
- New directions for adult and continuing education (journal)
- State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) [Switzerland]
- Studies in continuing education (journal)
- The Office of Development Effectiveness [Australia]
- UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)
