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What kind of continuing education is appropriate for me? More and more potential continuing education participants are turning to adult education institutions with this question. They often expect help in planning their educational and/or professional career. The ProfilPASS is the best known qualitative approach to educational and professional counselling in Germany; it is also used in some parts of Austria. The ProfilPASS is a portfolio used exclusively by qualified ProfilPASS counsellors to h…
A good two-and-a-half years after the EU's lifelong learning education programme began, the German National Agency has drawn up an interim balance and reflects current trends of the 2009 applications in the programme. GRUNDTVIG for general adult education. There is increasing demand for established forms of funding, affecting both learning partnerships and continuing education funding for individual workers in the field. Since 2009 the EU has put forward various new funding programmes. There ha…
Wie ist die Situation des Personals und der Personalgewinnung in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung? Welche Folgen hat das sog. Herrenberg-Urteil des Bundessozialgerichts für Träger und Kurse? Hierüber sprechen wir mit Dr. Christiane Ehses, stellvertretende Direktorin und pädagogische Leiterin des Hessischen Volkshochschulverbands, Thiemo Fojkar, Vorsitzender des Vorstands des Internationalen Bunds (IB ) und Vorsitzender des Vorstands des Bundesverbands der Träger beruflicher Bildung (BBB ), un…
This overview in table form of the adult education centres survey for 2021 presents key findings pertaining to institutional characteristics, personnel, funding and events.
The need for counselling and counselling processes among students in the humanities and social sciences In the area of adult education, learning counselling assumes the role of a support function for self-guided learning. University students must also structure and plan their learning process, even though many of these students are unable to develop sufficient learning skills due to their previously limited learning experience. Learning counselling as a tool in the learning process could fil…
The competence concept of PISA and IALS New impulses for adult education through international comparative studies In the contribution the literacy concept, which is new to the German education discussion, and some of the results of IALS are presented, whereas parallels but also differences are shown to the PISA study. The causales for the central result of the missing basic competences are questioned, whereas clues are given to contexts between antiquated teaching methods and often lament…
The contribution discusses dimensions of the internationalisation of educational marketing. Seen from a German perspective the authors are therewith treading on new land. Thereby they differ between (1) educational marketing in international comparison (using the example of comparison of the English and German situation) and (2) international educational marketing, so the development of communication- and dissemination structures of regional or national offers for an international market. For 1…
