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Skills for Life – Skills for Work: Seminar on the Post-2015 Agenda
14 July 2014
Skills for life and for work should be conceived within the framework of education as a human right. They are a means of personal, cultural, social and economic development, and should include values and attitudes enabling individuals to improve their capabilities to participate fully in society, to take control of their lives to and continue learning.
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in partnership with the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), organized a seminar entitled “Skills for Life – Skills for Work: Seminar on the Post-2015 Agenda” on 25 June 2014 at UIL in Hamburg. The aim of the meeting was to discuss how to strengthen the position of skills for life and work in the post-2015 international development agenda.
The key concepts discussed were:
- A human rights-based approach must be adopted in the development of skills for life and skills for work;
- A sector-wide approach in learning and education should include skills for life and skills for work as an overarching framework;
- Inter-agency co-operation (governmental and non-governmental agencies) should be strengthened;
- Indicators to measure EFA Goal 3 must be established;
- ICAE will continue its global advocacy for adult education in collaboration with UIL to strengthen the human rights-based approach in the post-2015 agenda.
