Translation of "Lebenslanger bildung" in English

These days learning is a lifelong process and education is a significant economic factor.

A lot of mention has been made within the report and by colleagues speaking here tonight, and I am sure the Commissioner will also touch on it, about the importance of lifelong learning and education.

Quantified objectives should be set, for example in the areas targeted by the Lisbon Strategy: youth employment, over 50s' employment and access to lifelong learning.

In the Lisbon conclusions, mobility was recognised as an essential element in the information society and in the promotion of lifelong training.

As the draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education on the European Qualifications Framework, I consider the issue of lifelong education to be very important, primarily from two points of view.

The European Social Agenda also emphasises the importance of access to lifelong learning for everyone, particularly in the fields of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Increasing productivity, in particular through access to lifelong learning, and increasing employment participation, in particular by creating a real European labour market and a higher level of occupational mobility, are two important ways of doing this, as are increasing the birth rate and immigration.

Demographic trends have increased life expectancy radically, changing at the same time the age structure of the population, thereby increasing the need for lifelong learning.

The conference was expected to identify the emerging needs of adult learning and the approaches needed to ensure widespread access to lifelong learning after the year 2000.

A lot of mention has been made within the report and by colleagues speaking here tonight, and I am sure the Commissioner will also touch on it, about the importance of lifelong learning and education.

Mrs Reding began by stress­ing that "Lifelong access to good quality education and training is something that affects people's lives and futures.

A lifelong advocate of education, Fountain was a charter member of the Board of Trustees of St. Andrews Presbyterian College of Laurinburg from 1955 through 1971.

The essence of this strategy' s vision of Europe is that it must be inclusive, and the European answer to making it inclusive is what we call an education-based society, which is essentially concerned with lifelong education and training, as has been stressed today.

Some of these are young people studying towards their first university degree; others are working graduates with the wish to acquire additional qualifications, whilst others are senior students following the dream of lifelong education.

The project will improve not only the skills and competences of managers and staff who pilot the training materials in different agencies but also the quality and access to continuing vocational training focused on the open labour market by equipping front line staff in agencies with the knowledge and skills needed to adapt a high quality client centred approach.

Of course, for these we need lifelong learning and also lifelong vocational training.

Lifelong education and training are playing a central role in the advent of the knowledgebased society.

It specialises in the fields of lifelong learning, vocational education and training and adult education.

Education, lifelong learning, innovation and culture certainly lead to progress.

What matters today is to provide the widest possible access to education and continuous updating of knowledge.

A knowledge-based society requires that policies be instituted to ensure lifelong access to education and training.

Approaches to ongoing training, professional development and vocational guidance should disregard all stereotypes.

So, lifelong learning and education and training that respond to an increasingly knowledgebased economy are vital.

The debate on education in the United Kingdom centred on two opposite views. The first one defended by Robert Owen, who saw education as a means of social control.

It is in this role that Lifelong education can play an essential role in the advancement of equal opportunities.

Lifelong education, serving lifelong learning is on the policy agenda of many industrialised countries.

In the White Paper, the stress was put on "lifelong learning and continuing training" .

Goal 4 calls for inclusive, equal, high-quality and lifelong education for all.

That’s why lifelong education in art and culture is a decisive factor in cultural policy.

Education, formal or informal, needs to continue through life as part of ‘personal growth’.

The right to employment and to lifelong individual and vocational training necessitates the implementation of full employment policies.

Finally, I would like to say that the best investment is an investment in the education of the young generation, and I mean lifelong education.

To be precise, the competent committee initially adopted the position of the Commission and the Council and proposed a freeze on appropriations for lifelong learning, education and young entrepreneurship programmes.

To be precise, we have: widespread application of the famous 'flexicurity', in conjunction with 'lifelong learning', 'training and retraining' and 'mobility' of workers, abolition of collective agreements, shared jobs, drastic wage and pension cuts, an increase in the retirement age and sweeping changes in social insurance, health, welfare and education.

In this context, it is essential to improve the quality of life of women living in rural areas by providing them with the easiest possible access to education and vocational training, lifelong learning, effective local public healthcare services, not to mention to the infrastructure and services for supporting children and families.

Some proposals are, admittedly, based on obvious common sense such as lifelong learning, better coordination of social security systems or the transferability of pension rights.

Mr Trentin has mentioned this issue and in his motion for a resolution he stresses the importance of continuous training, mobility, flexibility and safety, as well as the non-wage costs of the workforce, above all at the lowest end of the scale.