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Education for Everyone. Worldwide.

Lifelong.

The Role of Universities in Lifelong Learning

and Sustainable Development Post 2015

Heribert Hinzen

ASPBAE Festival of Learning –

Asia Pacific Civil Society Defining Education for the Future

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

18-21 November, 2014

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From Dakar to Incheon and to New York

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

Flashback

2000 Dakar EFA

2000 UN Summit MDG

2012 Start on Post 2015 - Timeline

Steps in Asia as an Example

2014 GEM Muscat Agreement

2014 OWG Proposal on SDG

2014 APREC Statement

Timeline for the Final Round

2015 WEF in Korea: New Education / LLL Agenda

2015 UN Summit in NY: Sustainable Development Agenda

What to do?

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World Education Forum April 2000 in Dakar

Goals 1 and 2: Early childhood and schooling

Goal 3: learning needs of all young people and adults / skills

Goal 4: 50% more in adult literacy, basic and continuing education for all adults

Goal 5 and 6: Gender and Quality

Post-2015 EFA debate:

• Global goals?

• National targets?

Context specific – no one size fits all

EFA – Education For All

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UN Millennium Summit September 2000 in New York

• 8 goals – poverty, gender + women, child mortality, maternal health, HIV AIDS, environment, partnership

• Goal 2: universal primary education

• In Laos: Goal 9 - clearance of 80 million bombs and mines

Are the MDGs achievable without

skills, youth and adult learning?

Post-2015 MDG debate:

• Unfinished agenda

• New needs and opportunities

MDG – Millennium Development Goals

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Start of the debate 2012

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

There must be both

• Education-specific development agenda beyond 2015

• Explicit reference to education in all development agendas

• Key education issues

• Access

• Learning

• Equity

• Quality

• Teachers

• SkillsUNESCO Regional

High-Level Expert Meeting

Bangkok, May 2012

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UN System Task Team post-2015

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

Emerging trends

• From teaching to learning

• Lifelong learning as paradigm

• Learning, working, living – no boundaries

• Rising skills level – foundational skills

• Employability - transition school to work

• Anticipating change for education and skills development

UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda:

Education and skills for inclusive and sustainable development beyond 2015, UNESCO,

May 2013

Top-down or bottom-up?

How can we participate?

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Quality Education

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

No doubt, quality must be provided in

• Early childhood education

• Primary schooling

• Secondary schooling

• Vocational training

• Open / Higher / University education

• Non-formal education

• Youth and adult education

• Inclusive education

Participative modes for quality assurance?

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Lifelong learning for all

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

Education, training and learning must be lifelong for

• Children

• Youth

• Adults

• Elderly

And it must be for all

• Access for urban and rural

• Rich and poor

• Gender diversity

• Inclusive and equitable

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Lifelong Learning for All

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

Education, training and learning additional also in

• Community learning centers

• Agricultural extension

• Health and nutrition education

• Awareness raising on human rights

• Women empowerment and gender training

• Environmental and climate change education

• Organizational development

• Capacity building and training

No development process without learning

Lifelong learning for all – all time, everywhere,

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World Development Report 2013

Global Education Policy – Post 2015

Skills or jobs – which comes first?

Skills for work and life

Skills are acquired throughout life.

People learn, adapt, and form their

skills through a multitude of

interactions and mechanisms

within the household and

neighborhood, during the

formative years of schooling,

at work, and in training. p 175

Skills through Universities?

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Asia-Pacific

Regional

Consultation

on Education

beyond 2015

Second

Regional

Expert

Meeting

Beyond

2015

March

February2013

November

Global

Consultatio

n on

Education

First

Regional

Expert

Meeting

Beyond

2015

The World We Want global consultations

October

Third

Regional

Expert

Meeting

Beyond

2015

May 2012

High-

Level

Panel

Report

UN

Secretary

-

General’s

Report

May July

UNESCO

General

Conferenc

e

Regional

Workshop

on National

EFA Review

November

SDSN

Report

June

April2014

Regional

Workshop

on

National

EFA

ReviewAsia

-Pacific

Glo

balEducation Post-2015

Some milestones so far

UNGA

68th

session

Special

Event on

MDGs

September

Open Working Group on

SDGs

Global

EFA

Meeting

2014

May

Outcome

Documen

t of OWG

July

August

APREC

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Breakthrough

Post 2015

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Global Education for All Meeting

UNESCO, Muscat, Oman

12 – 14 May 2014

Overarching Goal:

“Ensure equitable

and inclusive

quality education

and lifelong

learning for all by

2030”

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Open Working Group Proposal - SDG

The OWG has come up with 17 goals for the sustainable

development agenda, covering

Poverty reduction

End hunger

Health

Education

Gender

Water and sanitation

…

Peace

Global partnership

Goal 4: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all ”

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Looking Ahead

APREC

World

Conference on

Education for

Sustainable

Development,

Nagoya, Japan

World

Education

Forum 2015,

Incheon,

Republic of

Korea

UNGA 69th session

High-Level events

UN

Secretary-

General’s

Report

September By

December

10-12 November 19-22 May 2015August

2014

September

UN

Summit

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Training, Research, Development, Cooperation

Role of Universities

Teaching and training

• facilitators, trainers, managers

• full and part-time, short and long term

• bachelor, master, ERASMUS, TEACH

• country, bilateral, regional

Research and evaluation

• youth and adult learners and programs

• lifelong learning providers and systems

• processes of professionalization

• special studies into our thematic areas

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Training, Research, Development, Cooperation, ctd.

Role of Universities

Open and distance learning

• more traditional courses

• students, and further training

• MOOCs = Massive Open Online Courses

• next ICT based developments?

Networking and cooperation

• between universities

• Universities with civil society

• potential cutting edge to globALE

• community engagement

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Examples

Role of Universities

APUCEN = Asia-Pacific University-Community

Engagement Network

DVV International is a member via Regional Office

Vientiane

Participated in University Network Meeting in Vang

Vieng, Lao PDR

Helped in translating the ALE / LLL terminology /

glossary

Joined the APUCEN Summit in Penang, Malaysia

Potential partner for a Master of Education / LLL

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Examples

Role of Universities

ASEM Education and Research Hub On Lifelong

Learning

http://asemlllhub.org

Research networks

• development of ICT skills, e-learning

• workplace learning

• professionalization of adult teachers and educators

• national strategies for lifelong learning

• ASEM core competencies

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Examples

Role of Universities

International Association of Universities

Portal on Higher Education / Research for Education

for All

http://heefa.net

• Series of workshops in different parts of the world

• Capacity building and sharing

• Information kit: Why and how can higher education

contribute to all levels and types of education?

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Regional Education Conferences

Latin America: 30 – 31 October,

Lima

Europe: 3 – 4 December, Paris

Arab States: Last week January /

early February, where?

Africa: 9 – 10 February, Kigali

ASPBAE Festival of Learning /

Asia CSO Conference, 18 – 21

November, Yogyakarta

Too early to celebrate

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World Education Forum,

Incheon, Korea, May 2015

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Thank you

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