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Supporting Projects Replaces Safe-guarding the Infrastructure. Northrine-Westphalian structural change. The state funds of Northrine-Westphalia for further education were reduced from € 120 Mio to € 88 Mio between 2000 and 2007 by governments of different colours. The most recent reduction was carried out while promising € 12 Mio annually out of the European Social Funds (ESF) instead. This rearrangement from institutional base support to project-oriented support is a great challenge for furthe…
The contribution assesses the consequences for adult education emerging from the running GATS negotiation round. Initially the present situation of the regulations are described which apply for the EU since 1994 and which restrict liberalisation to privately financed educational services. Since 2002 the USA and Brazil are demanding further steps to be taken by the EU. The possible consequences are estimated of the discontinuation of – among others – the subventions reserve for special areas of …
The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the m…
The recommendations treat different aspects related to the development of basic skills, policy as well as practice.
1992 verabschiedete die Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen in Rio die Agenda 21, auf der das Konzept „Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung“ beruht. Ziel ist es, umwelt- und entwicklungsorientierte Bildung zu vereinen. Allerdings gibt es keine einheitliche Definition und Bildungseinrichtungen engagieren sich diesbezüglich sehr unterschiedlich. Welche Einstellung haben Praktiker, Multiplikatoren und Wissenschaftler zu dem Konzept, wie groß sind Bekanntheitsgrad und Akzeptanz? Diese Online-…
Ausgehend von Ergebnissen der Machbarkeitsstudie "Weiterbildungspass mit Zertifizierung informellen Lernens" werden Definitionen für informelles Lernens und für die Zertifizierung und Fragen der Anerkennung dieser informell erworbenen Kompetenzen, besonders im betrieblichen Kontext, problematisiert.
Bildungspolitik, insbesondere Weiterbildungspolitik, erlebt in den letzten Jahren national wie international einen neuen Aufschwung. Die Renaissance der Bildungspolitik ist eng verbunden mit einer gesellschaftlichen wie auch ökonomischen Notwendigkeit, die Konkurrenzfähigkeit im globalen Wettbewerb ebenso wie gesellschaftliche Integration und Partizipation umschließt. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Heftes kreisen um die Frage, wo die Schwerpunkte und innovativen Aspekte der (Weiter-)Bildungspoli…
In recent years, the discourse on competences as well as the increasing importance of informal learning particularly at workplaces have attributed a prominent position to the procedures of visualization and balancing of vocational competences within the educational practice as well as in education policy debates.However, most of these procedures focus on apprentices or participants of further education courses. This rather limited view has largely excluded teachers and/or dispositive employees …
