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Education as the underpinning system : understanding the propensity for learning across the lifetime (Future of Skills & Lifelong Learning Evidence Review)
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Barnes, Sally-Anne, Brown, Alan and Warhurst, Christopher (2016) Education as the underpinning system : understanding the propensity for learning across the lifetime (Future of Skills & Lifelong Learning Evidence Review). London: Foresight, Government Office for Science. (Foresight, Government Office for Science).
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Abstract
There is much debate about labour market and other changes, for example technological and demographic. Within this context, the support from the education and skills system still has a role in supporting individuals to make important decisions about their engagement in education and investment in skills, as well as helping individuals make informed choices and decisions about their transitions into and through the labour market. Individuals need to continuously adapt their skills and competencies whilst acquiring new and/or specialist skills to cope with demographic and labour market shifts. This is achieved by engaging with learning across the life-course.
Recent frameworks for understanding the life-course, such as career adaptability, have focused on the attributes and competences needed of individuals to manage these labour market changes and transitions that they now face during their life. These frameworks take account of individual’s engagement in learning throughout their life and how career and life decisions might be made. Career adaptability is viewed as necessary to build career resilience and career management as well as offering a fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by the changing labour market. If the education and skills system is to further affect an individual’s resilience then it needs to encourage and support the development of career adaptability attributes and behaviours across the life-course.
The benefits of engaging with education and learning across the life-course is that it enables people to: up-skill for a particular career path; reskill for a career change; catch up on learning; respond to changing circumstances; remain in the labour market longer; be productive; and engage in further learning. Importantly, those engaged in learning are more likely to remain in the labour market and are better able to cope with change and multiple transitions. Policies should be aimed at helping individuals develop, maintain and improve their learning and skills to support an extended working life. This aim could be achieved through the provision of personalised and tailored skills development programmes, which could be delivered within educational institutions, workplaces or online, all underpinned by the provision of effective careers guidance throughout the life-course and the support for individual engagement with learning, in all forms, across the life-course. The outcome will be a system that facilitates a workforce that is more resilient and better able to manage and positively respond to labour market – and other – changes.
Item Type: | Report | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > L Education (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Career development, Adult education, Vocational education, Occupational training | ||||
Series Name: | Foresight, Government Office for Science | ||||
Publisher: | Foresight, Government Office for Science | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
Official Date: | 26 September 2016 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 31 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | Evidence Review |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 April 2017 | ||||
Funder: | Foresight, Government Office for Science | ||||
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