Workshop on Measuring Wellbeing and Societal Progress Milan, 1921 June 2006

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Workshop on Measuring Well-being and Societal
Progress Milan, 19-21 June 2006

• Lifelong Learning for
• Well-being
• Indicators and benchmarks
• Anders Joest Hingel
• DG Education and Culture
• Lifelong learning Policies / Analyses, Statistics
  and Indicators

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What is well-being ?

• Is it Life satisfaction, happiness, Human
  welfare, social welfare, economic welfare
• quality of life ?
•  What is badly defined is doomed to be badly
  measured 
•  What is badly measured will not be done 

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• We know it when we see it

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• We know it when we see it

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We know it when we see it
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We know it when we see it
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What is Well-being ?

• What ever it is, education is sure be of central
  importance

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Education and training

• Lifelong learning
• Formal learning
• Nonformal learning
• In-formal learning

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Lifelong learning related to

• Household income Democracy
• Employment Health
• Security Childrens future
• Civil society Productivity
• Innovation Entrepreneurship

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The Lisbon strategy (2000)

• By 2010 Europe should become the most
  competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy
  in the world, capable of sustainable economic
  growth, with more and better jobs and greater
  social cohesion.

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The Lisbon strategy (2000)

• Implementation through the Open Method of
  Co-ordination
• Guidelines for the Union
• Indicators and benchmarks
• Exchange of good practice
• Peer reviews and mutual learning processes

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Barcelona European Council, March 2002

• Europe's education systems should by 2010 be a
  "world quality reference"
• Adoption of a Detailed work programme on the
  implementation of Common objectives for education
  and training in Europe

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The Lisbon strategy in the field of Lifelong
Learnng

• Objectives of education and training systems in
  Europe
• Copenhagen process of enhanced cooperation in
  vocational education and training
• The Bologna process in Higher Education

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Common Objectives in Education and Training

• 3 Strategic objectives
• 13 Objectives
• 29 indicators
• and 5 concrete benchmarks

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Three Strategic Objectives for education and
training

• Improving the quality and effectiveness of
  education and training systems in the EU
• Facilitating the access of all to education and
  training systems
• Opening up education and training systems to the
  wider world

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Five European Benchmarks in education and Training

• By 2010
• 10 early school leavers
• Decreased of least 20 of low-achieving
  15-year-olds in reading literacy
• At least 85 of 22-year-olds should have
  completed upper-secondary education.
• Increase by at least 15 of the number of
  graduates in mathematics, science and technology
  decrease of gender imbalance
• Participation in lifelong learning should be at
  least 12.5 of the adult working age population
  (25-64 age group).

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ET 2010 Operational Level

• Links with other Groups
• ACVT (formal tripartite advisory body)
• High Level Group
• DGVET (informal group)
• DGHE (informal group)
• Programmes Committees

Education Training 2010 Coordination Group -
ETCG

• Indicator expert groups
• Teachers
• Adult Skills
• Learning to Learn
• Civics

• Networks and Groups
• Languages
• EQF
• Quality assurance
• Guidance

• Indicators and benchmarks
• Standing Group (SGIB)
• CRELL research centre
• Eurydice

• Clusters/PLAs
• Teachers Trainers
• ICT
• Resources
• Non-formal information learning
• Higher education
• Key Competences
• Access/social inclusion
• MST

• Activities at national level to support reforms
• National coordination and implementation of the
  process
• Actions to enhance the ET 2010 visibility
• Organisation of peer learning activities

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Early school leavers (2005)Percentage of
population aged18-24 with only lower secondary
education and not in education or training
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Early school leavers

• Benchmark continuous progress since 2000
• However, faster progress needed to reach
  benchmark
• Best performing countries Poland, Czech
  Republic, Slovakia

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Five benchmarks as core of analysis

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Five EU benchmarks
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Council Conclusions (May 2005)Priority areas for
the development of new indicators

• Foreign Languages skills
• Learning-to-learn skills
• Social inclusion and active citizenship
• ICT
• Adult education / Adult Skills
• Teachers and trainers
• As well as
• Mobility
• Investment efficiency
• Vocational education and training

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Educational indicators for wellbeing

• Input (investment, participation in
  pre- primary, investment)
• Process (hours of teaching, curricula, tests..)
• Output (Graduates, skills, LLL
  participation.)
• Outcomes (active citizenship, employment,
  income, integration

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Active Citizenship

• Definition
• Participation in civil society, community and/or
  political life characterized by mutual respect
  and non-violence and in accordance with human
  rights and democracy

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CRELL project Active citizenship for Democracy
(Partnership with the Council of Europe)

• In order to have well being in society and to
  ensure within this a democratic culture it is
  necessary to have active citizens
• To prepare young people for active citizens we
  need to develop effective education and training
  for active citizenship, ensuring that school
  leavers have the necessary knowledge, skills,
  competencies and attitudes

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Examples of educational indicators for a
wellbeing framework

• Adult skills (proxy attainment levels of
  adult population)
• Learning to learn skills (Crell)
• Civics (Crell)
• Lifelong Learning participation
• Educational equity (composite indicator)

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Present education indicators (OECD)

• International Student assessment
• Tertiary attainment
• Expenditures in tertiary education
• Public and private education expenditures

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