French universities and lifelong learning policies: an opportunity for adult learners ?

Isabelle Borras () and Nathalie Bosse ()
Additional contact information
Isabelle Borras: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019], CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche
Nathalie Bosse: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019], CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Continuing training has been one of the goals of French universities since 1968. However, most have only weakly committed to this activity, and adult participation in higher education (HE) is not well developed in France. Can lifelong learning (LLL) policies driven by international bodies since the early 2000s make a difference ? By changing access to training and the content of training in order to establish continuity between initial education and continuing training, do LLL policies offer adults last-chance opportunities to attend open universities ? How are the boundaries between initial education and continuing training in HE (higher education) systems evolving in France and other countries ? By addressing these issues, our ambition is to understand whether adult participation in HE is currently developing.

Keywords: higher education; lifelong learning; continuing training; adult learner; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06-29
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01844721v1
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in 29th Sase annual meeting "What's next ? Disruptive/collaborative economy or business as usual ?", Society for the advancement of socio-economics; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Jun 2017, Lyon, France. 18 p

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01844721v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01844721

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().