Teachers give course participants wings

This will make adult education, more than ever before, the place where training courses are tailored to the local labour market, where everyone can acquire digital competencies and where people without a diploma can obtain a useful qualification.

One in seven are low-literate

One in seven adults in Flanders and Brussels have difficulty with reading, writing, arithmetic or digital applications (PIAAC survey, 2013).

Writing a job application letter, understanding a timetable, using Smartschool, deciphering school invoices or online banking can prove very difficult for them. Being literate is important for functioning independently and for participating in society.

Education and training are crucial elements in this respect. Adult education centres and adult basic education centres are important links in a broader chain of education, training, work and social development. Not as competitors, but as partners with other training providers.

Adult education therefore remains fully committed to providing a broad and sustainable training offer with the aim of furthering personal development and social functioning, mastery of languages, continued participation in education and practice of a profession.

Thanks to the Flemish Resilience plan even more disadvantaged groups will find their way to adult education. Furthermore, the training offer will be improved and a broad ICT offer with open modules will be developed.

In this way, we want to offer all adults the possibility to make an educational leap (‘Edusprong’) and give the centres a real quality boost.