Greece: Development of lifelong learning and other provisions 2010
The Act on “Development of Lifelong Learning and other provisions” aims to set up a single comprehensive framework for Lifelong Learning under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs.
Specifically, the aims of this law are as follows:
i) to systematize and coordinate
the investigation of the
educational and training needs of adults
in relation to the
needs
of the labour market and social development;
ii) to plan and decentralize
lifelong learning activities;
systematically support
the institutions in the National
Network for Lifelong Learning; and to plan the cooperation
of the
institutions in the Network
with lifelong learning
service providers;
iii) to promote vocational training
and
adult education in
general
as two equal pillars of lifelong learning;
iv) to establish the standards and tools
for the
development and qualitative improvement to lifelong
learning;
v) to ensure the accessibility by people
and particularly by the members of vulnerable and socially vulnerable groups
to all the training activities and general adult education;
vi) to continually educate and evaluate adult educators;
vii) to establish a coherent national framework for the
evaluation and certification for all forms of training and general adult education; and
viii) to create a uniform national framework for the recognition of qualifications and the certification of knowledge, skills and abilities.