STATE OF THE ADULTS LEARNING SECTOR ACCORDING TO THE MAIN INTERNATIONALLY COMPARABLE STATISTICAL INDICATORS
Stoyan Baev
Abstract: The annual education and training analyses prepared by the European Commission for each of the EU Member States provide an opportunity to look for further data for our country and to analyse some new aspects of the observed processes in the adult learning sector. The 2020 Education and Training 2020 Strategy, through the EC-defined indicators, sets out the targets set by each country to be achieved by 2020 in the following specific thematic areas:
• Participation of the population aged 25 - 64 in formal or informal education or training - four weeks period;
• Early- dropouts from education and training aged 18 - 24;
• Educational structure of the population - higher education graduates from 30-34 years of age;
• Employment of the population aged 20 - 64.
The article, based on a brief analysis of the data on the target indicators for Bulgaria under the EU strategic framework "Education and Training 2020", presents the state and trends of the adult learning sector and some new aspects of the observed processes. Additional measures are proposed to the current ones in order to support efforts to overcome the lag in some specific areas of education and training and to achieve progress. Along with this, an attempt has been made to show how statistics and analyses of education can be used directly to propose policy measures and policy-making.
Finally, it is noted that so far the adult learning sector has made a substantial amount of work and that the implementation of the measures proposed to achieve more favourable values across the individual indicators can contribute to further improvement of the state of the sector for the period until 2020.
• Participation of the population aged 25 - 64 in formal or informal education or training - four weeks period;
• Early- dropouts from education and training aged 18 - 24;
• Educational structure of the population - higher education graduates from 30-34 years of age;
• Employment of the population aged 20 - 64.
The article, based on a brief analysis of the data on the target indicators for Bulgaria under the EU strategic framework "Education and Training 2020", presents the state and trends of the adult learning sector and some new aspects of the observed processes. Additional measures are proposed to the current ones in order to support efforts to overcome the lag in some specific areas of education and training and to achieve progress. Along with this, an attempt has been made to show how statistics and analyses of education can be used directly to propose policy measures and policy-making.
Finally, it is noted that so far the adult learning sector has made a substantial amount of work and that the implementation of the measures proposed to achieve more favourable values across the individual indicators can contribute to further improvement of the state of the sector for the period until 2020.
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Date published: 2019-06-04
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