Speakers’ Corner. The sudden shutdown of the adult education sector has forced institutions to quickly renew their thinking. In Finland, Lauri Tuomi witnessed how piano lessons and Spanish courses w...
Speakers’ Corner. Low-skilled and low-paid adults are providing essential services and known as key workers during the current pandemic. Will they have better chances for personal and career-related...
News story. Increased competitiveness and more visibility in society. These requirements have become familiar to universities in recent years. How to make them a reality? A study from Finland offers o...
Interview. Are you worried about climate change? Many young people will say “yes”. The concern of young people about the environment is real, and it is the job of adults to take it seriously, says...
Interview. French learning technology expert challenges the monopoly of institutional validation and shares his view on how learning should be recognised.
Editorial. The media literacy skills of school children are a hot topic at the moment. However, the ones most in need for such skills seem to be we adults, who are even more lost in the digital era. T...
Toolkit. CONEDU, an Austrian association has created a basic text on Adult Education in the EU, which has been integrated into the national validation system for adult educators. Karin Kulmer from the...
News story. Finnish education export company Edunation plans to attract 150 000 students from Asia to Finland to study robotics, automation and many other subjects relevant today.
News story. The past 100 years have seen many changes in the teaching of the narrative of the Finnish Civil War. Adult education and independent studying are ways of receiving an up-to-date history le...
Editorial. Lifelong learning is needed to make sure that the concept of European heritage includes all Europeans.
News story: The EU ranks Denmark as one of the pioneers in bringing entrepreneurial values to education. Accordingly, Denmark has seen a remarkable cultural change: the current status of entrepreneurs...
Essay. The French education system does not adequately prepare students for intercultural dynamic and multilingual skills, creating a gap between francophone and anglophone researchers in humanities a...
Feature. Joining a terrorist organisation is something done out of free will or in the lack of options. Leaving one can cost a life. The journey out of an extremist group does not end at home. That is...
Feature. Japan is slowly waking up to women’s importance in contributing to the country’s growth. Adult education can help support women’s careers as they seek better opportunities at workplace.
How to get the basic education for everyone from school children to adult learners in a war torn society with little resources at hand? This is a challenge Ministry for Education and higher Education ...
Editorial. Mental health problems continue as one of the major public health problems in Europe. The good news is that adult educators stand on the side of a solution.
Feature. Therapy is a journey of self-discovery for the patient, but before this can happen the therapist will have learned to use the central tool of the trade - his or her own psyche.
Three voices. Three experts share their visions for how to change learning to meet the needs of the constantly evolving world.
Using intelligent intuition may be a game-changing tool in solving wicked problems such as climate change. Intuition is a learnable skill, argues researcher Asta Raami, and it enables us to tap into o...
World of research. Active citizens, participation, social activities! This vision of active citizenship is impossible for some groups of people. Vulnerable learners may lack basic skills to be able to...
World of research. The level of education is already so high in Finland that career security cannot be achieved through education the way it once was. Nevertheless, one must constantly be better, says...
