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Trying to maintain or improve their job skills or broaden their knowledge leads a growing number of people to acquire further knowledge and skills. The purpose of the presented study is to analyse the reasons why adults/employed people in the Czech Republic return to the education system (international comparison). The case study of the students of the combined study program at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, aimed to discuss their reasons and study conditions. The available resources and the investigation show that the main reasons why adults return to the education system is for an extension to their knowledge, improvement of their position in their existing job, chances of finding a better job or improvement of their position in the labour market, etc. The survey also suggests that a lot of students study without [their employer's knowledge]. Education and skills development is one of the important conditions for the development of society in general. Qualified people have better employment and opportunities in the labour market and employers with a skilled workforce can have a competitive advantage in this area, and this is important for both sides to realise.

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The development of the informational society and the widespread diffusion of information technology give rise to new opportunities for learning and they challenge established views and practices regarding how teaching and learning should be organized and carried out. At the same time, globalization and the emergence of new players in the world economy have intensified competition, many countries turning production towards high value-added and knowledge-intensive products and services which request high-level skills labor force. Lifelong learning concept offers the prospect of a radical new approach especially for the higher educational process focused on the opening up traditional universities for those who want to learn lifelong. In the same time, educational institutions, universities most of all, are facing a number of challenges: globalization, aging society; growing competition between higher educational institutions both national and international, and rapid technological development. To answer successfully to all these challenges, in the opinion of most of the specialists, traditional universities must transform themselves by adopting a lifelong learning system. This system will transform how universities currently teach. To achieve this transformation, universities will have to introduce strategies and policies which implement flexible academic frameworks, innovative pedagogical approaches, new forms of assessments and institutional collaboration.

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Discussions at a European level aimed at policies of economic and social cohesion, especially those aimed at smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (Europe 2020 Strategy), provide universities an increasingly important role in achieving the link between the professional training of people and the requirements of the labor market. Given these priorities, the paper shows that efforts should be focused on education accountability, encouraging innovation and improving employment and training policies to meet labor market flexicurity. Also, a greater capacity for research, development and innovation in all sectors of the economy, combined with a good use of resources will improve competitiveness and boost new job creation. In this article is undertaken a comparative analysis of areas where action must be taken and how to be operated, pointing out some differences and performances recorded in the European Union, through the relevant indicators on employment, education and innovation, as part of the system of indicators of life quality. Providing labor market flexicurity requires major changes in the Romanian educational system, including strategies for lifelong learning, determined by the implementation of new [information technology] IT and communication technologies in all sectors. The role of educational institutions is changing, education became an integral part of the process of globalization and an economic source that can sustain a relatively long-term competitive advantage, as long as they always provide an 'update' of the information already processed by an individual.

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This research tries to find [the] contribution of education over the internet as a solution [to] some problems that adult students [experience] in open vocational high school and catch-up education. Results of the survey were evaluated from 192 adult students who are educated in Istanbul as [a] reference pattern. According to the survey results, adult students have some problems caused by various reasons during [their] education period. Especially due to [their] inability [to attend] regular training sessions, open and catch-up education objectives couldn't be fully reached. Adult students will have flexible use of time and location by taking the theoretical part of their face to face vocational courses over the internet. Some of the problems can be solved by giving training in such a way to the students who have sufficient internet and computer skills.

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Lifelong learning is the lifewide, voluntary and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for not only personal but professional reasons as well. It does not only enhance social inclusion, active citizenship and individual development, but also increases competitiveness and employability. The importance of lifelong learning has been increasing for some important reasons. These are increasing of life expectancy, increasing the 'old-age dependency' ratio, the desire for increasing the life quality, and trying to keep themselves in good physical and mental condition, by humans. Due to these reasons, the importance of lifelong learning has been increasing.

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Rapid global economic development demands a more competitive workforce. Employers nowadays prefer prospective employees who have high soft skills in professionalism and sociology aspects. Engineering students and lecturers at the polytechnics have conducted this study to identify the level of communication skills, lifelong learning, entrepreneurship skills and moral and professional ethics that has been applied. The research design that was used was a descriptive survey type for research samples. The samples involved 195 students and 106 lecturers of civil engineering at the Malaysian Polytechnics. Research was conducted using a questionnaire and analysis using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17.0.

The results showed the level of communication skills, lifelong learning, entrepreneurship skills and moral and professional ethics to be moderate. The results also showed that no statistically significant differences were found between students and lecturers in the application of soft skills. In conclusion, this study suggests that lecturers use a variety of approaches to improve the level of soft skills among students in civil engineering.

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The paper presents the role of lifelong learning in improving employment and labour efficiency in general and then captures the relationship between education-lifelong learning and the labour market in Romania. The study results focus on identifying certain actions to encourage lifelong learning in Romania and to improve educational and employment policies, to improve the quality of life.

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Information, access to information, and communication technologies leading to rapid and profound changes in economic and social life make lifelong learning a must for everyone, and mostly adults. In Turkey, adult education, in terms of lifelong learning, starts in such institutions which aimed to make the individual freer, transformative and egalitarian, so-called Village Institutions in the 1940s, Open Education at Anadolu University, etc. Adult education varies all over the world. However, it has some universal goals such as managing the individual's life, self-sufficiency, learning by doing and practising. In the philosophy of adult education lies making the adults contemporary, secular and responsible citizens who quest, think, comment and try to make life easier and happier. Lifelong learning, together with the European Union Harmonization Laws, is a term widely used today in Turkey, though it was actually adopted in the history of the Republic of Turkey from the first day of national development and applied in our educational history.

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