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Habanik: We Have to Step on the Gas in Terms of Life-long Education
Friday 20 November 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, November 20 (TASR) - LS-HZDS vice-chairman Jozef Habanik thinks that Slovakia is falling well behind the EU average when it comes to educating adults (aged 25-64), he said at a press conference on Friday, adding that Slovakia has to step on the gas in order to improve the situation.
According to Habanik, the Government legislative proposal on life-long education, which was moved to second reading in Parliament and will be dealt with in December, should help to reverse the unflattering development in the sphere of educating adults.
"The required reference value, which we have reported is that education of the adults should reach 15 percent in this category by the end of 2020. The value from which we're starting is 3.5 percent," he specified, adding that about 6,000 mature students currently study at Slovak universities.
The law aims at supporting and improving the quality of further education and extending the possibilities of re-qualification, especially among the middle and older generation, which faces particular problems when looking for a suitable job.
There have been several quibbles expressed about the proposal, however, some of them coming from former education minister (Christian Democrat/KDH) Martin Fronc. According to him, the law only applies to the institutionalised life-long education, which rather tends to stonewall the life-long education process.
At the same press conference, LS-HZDS chairman Vladimir Meciar introduced the party's new spokesperson Sona Jantolakova.
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