ADULT EDUCATION POLICY IN SLOVENIA Peter Beltram

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ADULT EDUCATION POLICY IN SLOVENIAPeter
Beltram
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CONTENT

• Historical overview,
• Structural and Institutional framework,
• Legislation,
• Delivery and Provision,
• Assessment and Recognition,
• Adult Education Master Plan.

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A statement of experts at the early 90s

• SLOVENIA LAGS BEHIND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADULT
  EDUCATION IN GENERAL REGULATION AS MUCH AS IN THE
  DEVELOPMENT OF ITS COMPONENT PARTSTHE SITUATION
  COULD ONLY BE SOLVED BY THE THOROUGH SYSTEMIC
  RESHAPING.

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FIELDS

• Administration,
• Legislation,
• Research and Development,
• Promotion,
• Development of Providers,
• Improving Programmes,
• Financing,
• Adopting ADULT EDUCATION MASTER PLAN.

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NEW LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

• adopted in 1996,
• included
• ADULT EDUCATION ACT

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THE PRINCIPLES (Adult Education Act)

• Life-long learning,
• Equal opportunities,
• Freedom and autonomy,
• Secularity of public AE,
• Professional and ethic responsibility,
• Respect and dignity,
• Obtaining standards

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ADULT EDUCATION ACT groundedAdult Education
Master Plan

• The 23rd article of the Act defines components of
  the AEMP. Thus it should
• Determine the goals of the education of adults,
• Determine the priority fields,
• Define the required activities,
• Define the global amount of public funds needed
  for its implementation.

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ADULT EDUCATION MASTER PLAN

• A better Perspective for the Education of Adults

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GLOBAL AIMS AND PRIORITY FIELDS

• General non-formal education
• Raising educational attainment of adults
• Job related education and training

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ACTIVITIES NEEDED TO CARRY OUT THE AEMP

• Network of adult educators,
• Network of educational programmes,
• Network of councelling services,
• RD activities,
• Information provision,
• Infractructure,
• Promotion.

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AIMS

• To increase the demand for education at
  individual, entrepreneurial and community level,
• To ensure investment in adult education from
  individuals or social partners,
• To ensure co-ordination of agreements and
  measures among and between social partners on
  national and local level,
• To further develop and maintain the basic
  education infrastructure.

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AEMP AIMS

• To raise the level of general education, basic
  skills and new basic skills of adults,
• To define 12 years of successfully completed
  schooling as the fundamental educational
  standard,
• To increase employability.
• To increase possibilities for learning and
  participation in education.

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General adult education and learning

• Increasing the general level of education,
• Developing literacy skills and acquiring new
  basic skills,
• Preventing social exclusion, decreasing social
  neglect, motivating, encouraging learning and
  re-entry into schooling
• Percentage of inclusions should rise from 3.5 to
  6 between 2003 and 2010.

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Raising educational attainment

• Acquiring/completing of education
• Primary At least ½ without attained primary
  education will complete it,
• Secondary at least ¼ with incomplete secondary
  education will complete it,
• Higher professional education at least 1/10 with
  completed secondary education will enter tertiary
  education.

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Job-related education and training

• entering programmes to retain, refresh and
  modernise knowledge and qualifications to
  increase employability at least ½ of the
  unemployed will enter programmes for increasing
  employability.
• acquiring National Vocational Qualifications At
  least 10 of the unemployed and employed without
  vocational or professional education will acquire
  the NVQ.

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By 2010 we wish to surpass the EU benchmarks

• The share of adults, aged 25 - 64 with at least
  secondary education should reach 85 by 2010,
• Level of participation of active population, aged
  25 64, in life-long learning will be at least
  15.

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Targeted disadvantaged groups

• less educated, employed and unemployed, young
  adults
• groups with limited access to social, cultural
  and economic goods,
• adults with special needs,
• ethnic groups and immigrants,
• population from less developed regions.

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ACTIVITIES NEEDED TO CARRY OUT THE AEMP

• Expertise,
• Designing educational programmes,
• Developing guidance and counselling network,
• RD activities,
• Developing organisational infrastructure,
• Promotional and motivational activities.

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ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMMES

• Primary school for adults
• Programmes for improving literacy skills
• Project Learning for Young Adults
• Language education
• Study circles
• Learning Exchange
• Self-study centres
• Local Guidance Centres
• Lifelong Learning Week
• Offering Quality Education to Adults
• Programme 5,000 10,000
• Programme to eliminate education deficit

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FUNDING

• Based on the National Adult Education Master Plan
  and Annual Education Master plan
• Public network non-programme costs
• Public invitations to tender
• Subsidies, vouchers
• Concessions (contracting out)

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SOURCES OF FUNDING

• state and local budgets,
• company funds,
• funds of individual participants,
• international sources,
• other.

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Annual programme for adult education

• determines
• the scope of funding from the state budget
• the scope and type of needed activities
• ministries, competent for the programme
  execution, their respective role and
  responsibilities,
• educational programmes financed from public
  sources