Author: Zoltan Szabo

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....

The Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE) aims to become the main reference point for adult learning professionals in Europe. The European Commission has repeatedly expressed its appreciation of the fact that EBSN is one of the partners in the EPALE team, committed to making the portal into a key source of information as well as the main online meeting point for professionals fr...

Strategy To Raise Awareness and Improve, Generalize and Help Tackling European Needs for Basic Skills – Straighten Basic Skills Improving the accessibility of learning opportunities for adults, especially for low qualified employees and long term unemployed, with a view to training needs of workplace basic skills is one of the core areas of the European education policy. In the past a lot of proj...

http://youtu.be/jA6P2wXBFFk How do we sum up these two days? There was lots of interesting discussion on  PIAAC, social inclusion, numeracy, family learning, among many other relevant subjects. PIAAC was high on everyone’s agenda and we do need to engage with PIAAC – that is the message we were getting. Despite some legitimate misgivings, it is a rich evidence base that we can use to further our ...

The digital forum where we can meet and promote basic skills a call for your active participation and contribution About the features of the recently launched EPALE People working in adult education will be able to access news and events, and network with colleagues across Europe, as the second version of the adult learning community platform EPALE has gone live in English recently, with s...