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Vocational Education and Training of the Unemployed in the Context of Lifelong Learning
Vocational Education and Training of the Unemployed in the Context of Lifelong Learning

Author(s): Tomas Jovaiša
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: ifelong learning; continuing vocational education and training; vocational education and training in the labour market; inadequacy in labour market demand and supply; occupational mobility; human potential development.

Summary/Abstract: he article addresses the practical questions of lifelong learning and gives a short summary of lifelong learning situation in Lithuania. It discusses the major weaknesses of the activation of the human potential in Lithuania with respect to the assessment results of the occupational sector priorities set by the European Commission. It relates the problem of unemployment to the structure of adult education and it shows how the rate of scope of vocational education and training among adults is inverse to the tempo of unemployment growth.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 56-65
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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