Promoting Adult Learning
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, PUBLISHER: OECD, This publication brings together key lessons from 17 OECD countries, providing evidence on the strategies in place to improve adults' participation in learning. It addresses potential barriers to learning as well as policies to remedy them. Among these are policies for increasing and promoting the benefits of adult learning. Other policy levers include economic incentives and co-financing mechanisms that can raise the efficiency of adult learning provision, while delivering quality learning that is adapted to adults' needs. Finally, policy making can be improved via co-ordination and coherence in a field having a wide variety of stakeholders.