Educational Offers Outside the School System Part-I

Public adult education institutions should offer more refresher courses related to science and technology literacy - with a view to lifelong learning - and set up working groups for Internet use. Courses should also be offered for retired people to make sure that the knowledge and skills they have acquired will not be lost and they will be able to keep up with developments in technology. Public libraries should make computers available to their users for further education purposes. Adult education courses organized in the private sector should no longer be restricted to the teaching of narrowly specialized knowledge relating to specific occupations. Particularly the political parties and trade unions agencies offering courses of this kind should make an effort to teach a broader range of knowledge. Multimedia distance study programmes offered in further education should comply with the above-described minimum standard. The aim should be to encourage everyone to learn how to w...