Die Befunde der Bildungsforschung zeigen seit langem: Bildungschancen in Deutschland sind nicht gleich verteilt. Dies gilt auch für den Bereich der Weiterbildung. Die Autoren zeigen jedoch, dass sich die Bildungschancen Erwachsener nicht nur entlang der üblichen sozioökonomischen und demographischen Merkmale unterscheiden, sondern auch von regionalen Kontexten abhängen. Im Anschluss an den Weiterbildungsatlas 2015 werden die räumlichen Unterschiede der Weiterbildungsbeteiligung und des Weiterbi…
„Interkulturelle Öffnung“ zielt darauf ab, die Beteiligung von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund am Weiterbildungsangebot zu erhöhen. Eine exemplarische regionale Studie des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) im Auftrag der Kommunen Bremen und Bremerhaven liefert Einsichten über Beteiligung, Angebote und die Ansprache von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund sowie über die Planung von Angeboten in den Weiterbildungseinrichtungen. Im Folgenden werden die Ergebnisse der Studie unter …
Which implications does the ongoing GATS negotiation round have for the educational area? Although the WTO minister conference in Hongkong in December 2005 did not result in decisions made for the services sector, it is nevertheless the positioning of the participating member states – including the EU – beforehand and in reverberation of the conference which is interesting. When the »Doha round« expires in 2007, new propositions for liberation need to be available. The author observes the negot…
In the present contribution the final report of the Expert Commission on Financing Lifelong Learning is compared to a firework: it has provoked a short-term enthusiasm and attention. What is there to do in order not to let the ideas deflagrate but conserve chances for their implementation? The author asks the actors of further education to help oneself offensively with the arguments of the report (“public interest“, “more investments necessary“, “increase sovereignty demand“) and to advertise t…
Which (organisational and/or staff) knowledge is excluded in quality management? Setting out from the point of the finding of a scepticism towards the implementation of quality management in the area of education, the author formulates a thesis that shows the context of education, knowledge and quality management.
Why do senior citizens stop taking part in continuing education? The author tries to find and explain reasons, drawing on a survey regarding courses of scientific continuing education of Ulm University. One key finding is that the biggest impediments are a lack of time and other obligations.
The process of regulation in the heterogeneous field of education and examination necessarily creates encounters and collaboration of persons, who are standing for different positions and have variable styles of action. In a research project, initiated and financed by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the transfer of formal regulations for examination in certain fields of further education into the reality of the examination has been analyzed. The project utilized three regulated e…
The Northrhine-Westphalian labour ministry, in a research project carried out by the Landesinstitut für Qualifikation (State’s Institute for Qualification) in Soest, investigated what possible contribution to immigrant integration might be expected from the State’s institutions of further education. The results, laid down in the study „The contribution of further education twoards the integration of immigrants”, look like a list of shortcomings: insufficient data, an unclear market structure, a…
Can continuing university education be "internationalised"? Factors conditioning success and constraints on the export of continuing education programmes from German, Austrian and Swiss schools of higher learning In the context of a general expansion of the university sector through an ongoing differentiation and new regulatory models, the international orientation has become a key differentiating factor and quality aspect. This article shows that possibilities for greater internationalisati…
