Opening Higher Education to Adults

The study refers to the need of building the lifelong learning society by allowing people to acquire key competences and update their skills throughout their lives, in subjects of their own choice and at times and places of their convenience. Creating education and training systems (including higher education systems) that will be more responsive to change, more flexible and open to the needs of learners, other stakeholders, and to the community at large, is a major challenge for professionals and policy makers alike. This requires appropriate information, analysis, and advice.