Es gibt in Deutschland bisher nur wenige und verstreute Daten, die das System der Weiterbildung aus der Perspektive der Anbieter beschreiben. Der Verbund Weiterbildungsstatistik unter Koordination des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) tritt in diese Lücke und legt eine jährliche Statistik der angeschlossenen Einrichtungen und ihres Angebots vor. Im Folgenden werden zunächst die verfügbaren Daten beschrieben, bevor zwei Beispiele für inhaltliche Auswertungen gegeben werden.
Educational institutes have always been seen as needing to cooperate: this idea first took shape in education acts and is now increasingly being applied to lifelong learning. In practice, however, there are many arguments against cooperation at institutes of continuing education, not least as it can create unwanted situations of rivalry among the cooperating institutes. To develop models which will help guide schools on issues of cooperation better, further research is required: What advantage…
The article describes the project „Deutscher Bildungsserver“ which is working as a meta-server to supply users with an information system of relevant data in the field of education, adult and further education. The internet is offering big quantities of information and the chance to build up complex documents. Both make it more difficult to select and evaluate information. The „Deutscher Bildungsserver“ incorporates information critically bringing it into an order making it easier for users to …
During the last two decades widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evolu…
