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Basic Competence in Working Life Hanne Christensen Assistant Director Unit for Basic Skills Vox Norwegian Institute for Adult Learning Oslo 23 October 2008 1
The Competence Reform 1999 Main objectives: • to help meet the needs of individuals, society and the workplace in terms of skills and knowledge • to give adults more opportunity to acquire education and training to improve their qualifications • to put non-formal and informal competences on a more equal footing with formal competences • to establish a system to ensure opportunities for adults to have their knowledge and skills documented regardless of where these competencies were acquired 2
Surveys and scores • Results from IALS and ALL • A minimum of 400 000 have a low score in literacy and numeracy • At risk in working life 3
Some facts about the scores • In general, the number of people with low basic skills increases with age • Every fifth person between 16 and 20 is at risk • Immigrants, especially from non-western countries, have a low score • Among people with low scores, these factors occur more frequently: low levels of education, unemployment, social benefits as main income 4
Addressing the challenges • Basic Competence in Working Life was started in 2006 • Funding programme • Government focus on adult skills • Funded over the National Budget • Administrative and academic responsibility Vox 5
Programme purpose • The purpose of the programme is to fund and monitor basic learning projects in enterprises, or • projects aiming at preparing people for working life in cooperation with the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration 6
Programme goals • Giving adults the opportunity to improve their basic skills • Increasing quality of provision • Strengthening education providers’ ability to offer education adapted to the needs of enterprises and individuals • Increasing awareness of and open-mindedness, reduce stigma • Increasing knowledge of the barriers and success factors • Overall goal: to prevent exclusion from working life because of insufficient basic competence 7
An important sub-project The framework for basic skills for adults: • to increase the quality of teaching • to ensure an education tailored to the needs The framework comprises: • descriptions of levels • guidelines for providers • mapping tools and tests • a model for teacher training. 8
Programme priorities • • Maintaining flexibility and work capacity Literacy, numeracy, digital competence Any enterprise, private or public, can apply Criteria: – should be combined with work and preferably other job-relevant learning – level: ‘lower secondary school’ – strengthen motivation 9
The scope of projects 2006 and 2007 • 2006 (the first programme year): a total of 14, 5 million NOK was allocated to 64 enterprises • 2007: a total of 20 million NOK was allocated to 69 enterprises • Not a permanent offer depends on political priorities for each year’s National Budget 10
Projects in 2008 • 25 mill. NOK - 78 enterprises • reading, writing, numeracy and basic digital competence • both private and public enterprises • no fixed amount per participant • totally free for the participants • mostly during working hours • possible compensation for loss of productive time • information campaign • from 2008: applications have to relate to the recently established Framework for Basic Skills for Adults 11
Evaluation of the programme • Commissioned by the Ministry • Assess overall impact on participants and enterprises • Early days yet • Good reports • Increased interest and awareness 12
Lessons learned and future challenges • The importance of motivation • ICT as a motivating factor for other basic skills • The importance of openness • Political level keep the programme running • Reaching the target group 13
Project example • Example: Hydro Industries • Employees without a trade certificate are marginalised and leave work at a young age • Low reading skills is a major factor • Increase in writing and reading safety, reporting, computerised processes, trade certificates, other certificates (e. g. forklift) http: //www. vox. no/templates/Common. Page. aspx? id=2 950 14
The Framework for Basic Skills for Adults • The Framework for Basic Skills for Adults was approved in the autumn of 2007 by The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. • It establishes standards for literacy, numeracy, digital competence and oral communication. 15
The Framework for Basic Skills for Adults • A sub-project under the programme Basic Competence in Working Life • Content / skills level comparable to primary and secondary school, but adapted to the needs of adults 16
Main objective • To increase the quality of teaching and ensure that the individual can get education adapted to his/her needs… • … so that every adult can attain the level of basic competence… • … that enables him/her to meet the increased demands of today’s work and everyday life. 17
Active citizenship • Increased understanding • Increased participation • Empowerment 18
Guidelines, tools and teacher training 2008 further development of the content of the Framework for Basic Skills for Adults: • guidelines for providers • mapping tools and tests • didactic models In addition Vox has been assigned the responsibility to design a model for teacher training - customized to the needs of teachers who teach basic skills to adults. 19
An inter-connected system Materials & models The framework; description of competence goals Course content Teacher Mapping tools training/PD and guidelines 20
Thank you! Read more on our website, www. vox. no >> English Pages 21
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