Lifelong Learning starts in the 1st grade
EDITORIAL: "Even in grade school, people must not just acquire knowledge but acquire knowledge about how to acquire knowledge. You can't just learn - you have to learn how to learn," Professor Lars Qvortrup writes.

The keys to lifelong learning
VOX POP: What are the first three words that spring to mind when you hear 'lifelong learning'? Read what the experts say.

How can lifelong learning change your country?
VOX POP: Read what experts from all over the world say about the most defining issue for lifelong learning - and how lifelong learning can change a country. 

Learning outcomes

The urgent need to discuss lifelong learning
LIFELONG LEARNING IN CHINA: According to Vice Minister of education Zhang Xinsheng, lifelong learning initiatives can bridge formal and informal trainings and serve as a 'highway intersection' in a society.

Lifelong learning - a light at the end of the financial tunnel
ASEM: If the funding for lifelong learning were to disappear, the financial crisis could worsen significantly, says Director Arne Carlsen.

Lifelong learning on the market shelf
LEARNING CAPITALISM: Learning has been commodified in many parts of the world, and the growing learning market challenges public education in many ways, says Professor SoongHee Han.

Asia & Europe

A lesson a day keeps the doctor away
SOCIAL OUTCOMES OF LEARNING: Recent research by the OECD has shown that education has beneficial effects on health and civic engagement, but researchers warn politicians against jumping to the conclusion that more schooling is necessarily better.

Young people are more schooled
- But they are not necessarily better educated, says Professor Richard Teese.

The skills crisis - myth or reality?

We don't need no education
SKILLS CRISIS: We already have more than enough skills and education than most of us need in our jobs. The assumption that we are in a skills crisis is nothing but a myth, says Professor D. W. Livingstone.

Challenging the skills crisis in the UK
SKILLS CRISIS: New findings from two researchers challenge many of the assumptions underpinning the definition of a 'skills crisis' in the UK.

The world's first think tank on education
10 of the world's leading educational institutes from 6 countries are united in 1 think tank.