Summarized the reports of the committees that have been involved in planning all types of adult education programs in Finland. (JOW)

Since guidelines were laid down by the Council of State in Finland in 1978, vocational adult education has been the subject of extensive planning and preparation. The result has been reports, concrete experiments, and development projects including vocational adult education centers. (JOW)

A summary of the State Committee report on Finnish adult education outlines principles and guidelines on which planning for program development should be based. Nine topics include: objectives, concepts, policy aims, functional background, system evaluation, organizational development, pedagogic development, financial and social support, and…

Presents reflections on planning-learning processes using the nationwide adult education planning in Finland as an example. (JOW)

Summarizes the gradual progress and present situation of the development planning of adult education programs in Finland. Discusses the principle of lifelong education, the organizing efforts for adult education programs, and the impact of this development planning. (CT)

This article is an introduction to how the Finnish Labor Administration has tried to minimize unemployment in Finland by vocational training, mainly in vocational course centers. (CT)

The author attempts to clarify how, in Finland, interests of industrial employers in regard to qualifications of the labor force have changed and how industry has tried to improve personnel qualifications through its own training programs. (CH)

A program of the Finnish Central Federation of the Visually Handicapped is described. The program's aim is to provide and develop teaching materials and instructional methods to help persons who lost their eyesight as adults to learn braille. Discussed are personal tutoring, correspondence studying, regional courses, and program plans. (Author/JDD)

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Finnish Committee Report for the planning of future educational needs on the university level to meet the needs of government and industry. The Finns view education as needing to be organized to meet the needs of industrial changes, both quantitative and qualitative, so…

Examines working forms of the adult education system in Finland, including municipal adult education, boarding schools, national education organizations, distance studies and educational services, administration of adult education, university teaching and research of adult education, and adult education organizations. (CT)

This volume, the second in a series of three, contains the reports of six European experiments that were part of a process of cooperative monitoring of a project on adult education and community development. The theme of these experiments is "responses to unemployment and to the consequences of economic restructuring." The six…

This issue examines the following topics: comparative adult education (its scientific status and development), adult education research activity in system analysis, the inner structure of the system of adult education, adult education research and recently completed planning work, and the contents of adult education research in West Germany,…

This document contains the six of the seven keynote speeches from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. "IVETA (International Vocational Education and Training Association) 2000 Conference 6-9 August 2000" (K.Y. Yeung) discusses the objectives and activities…