Author: Zoltan Szabo

Offenders in prisons are a small but significant part of the target group of basic skills policies. Europe’s prison population is around 640,000 and it’s estimated that only 3-5{45dd1fd917f9c5256ddd62f2bb60264c9fd035a788f5039a41e25e9de2257d18} are at a level of skills that would allow them to progress into further life long learning. Low education levels affect prisoners’ employment prospects and ...

Adult learning can improve lives and economies. Adult learning benefits individuals, companies and society. Adults that continue to learn earn more, are more employable, enjoy better health and are more active citizens. Adult learning improves companies’ innovation performance, productivity, profitability and workforce motivation. It helps to improve a country’s economic competitiveness and growt...

On September 2015 a challenging and thought-provoking conference was organised by NIACE as the UK National Coordinator for the European Agenda for Adult Learning. The conference "Realising Impact: Making a difference through adult learning" focused especially on exploring the profound impact of all kinds of learning have on people's lives. As for kick-off keynote speaker Tim Harford (Financial Ti...

On the 10th of September, 2015 an international meeting will be organised in France marking the end of the Literacy@Work project. The meeting entitled “How can key competences be developed at work?” will focus on presenting and discussing workplace literacy training solutions that have proved to be successful in France, Germany and Austria. EBSN will be represented by several members. More inform...

NALA from Ireland elaborated guidelines for good adult literacy work defining the 5 most important principles of quality work in adult literacy. 1. Adult literacy work is based on a philosophy of adult education which is concerned with personal development and social action. Because literacy in modern society is a complex issue, adult literacy work must enable students to connect their literacy ...

Interview was made on the Annual Collaborative Workshop of the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) on the 3rd - 5th of June, 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Title of the workshop: “Strategies that work: governance, financing and implementation in the provision of basic skills for adults” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cff0PeyO3M&feature=youtu.be[/embed]

Many participants of the EBSN annual workshop gave positive feedback considering the event very inspiring and useful. Thank you! The presentations and photos from The Hague are available here...

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Abuja, has published a guidebook on how action research can enhance youth and adult literacy education and learning. This guidebook can be used as a resource for training adult educators and implementing participatory and collaborative action research processes. Acco...

Graciela Sbertoli presented the vision how EBSN would like to utilise the platform to create fora for basic skills policy makers and policy providers and nurture a growing 'community of practice' as well as to generate a new facility for continuous professional development and learning under EBSN Academy by creating webinars, MOOCs and other new possibilities for Learning. https://www.youtube.com...

The European Adult Education (Young) Professionals Learning Platform (AE-PRO) has announced the launch of ‘European e-training for Adult Educators’, that includes sessions on European developments in the adult education sector, Adult education methodologies in European countries and Policy and advocacy, etc. The free training begins in April via the online Adult Education Learning Platform at www....