What progress is Norway making with lifelong learning? A study of the Norwegian competence reform

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Today, lifelong learning figures prominently within the education and training policies of governments throughout the developed world and is presented as a powerful solution to a wide range of economic and social challenges. In essence, the vision is one of a society where people have multiple opportunities to learn throughout life across a diversity of contexts. Despite a persistent and universal gap between rhetoric and reality, it is clear however that some countries have gone further in r...

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Authors: Payne, J

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Publisher's website
• Series: SKOPE Research Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
• Publication date: 2005-01-01
• ISSN: 1466-1535
• Paper number: 55, June 2005
• Language: English
• Keywords: lifelong learning; Norway
• Subjects: Education; Vocational and professional learning