Investment in Skills Must Be for the Long Term

Autor/in	Field, John
Titel	Investment in Skills Must Be for the Long Term
Quelle	In: Adults Learning, 20 (2009) 10, S.16-17 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0955-2308
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Psychological Patterns; Lifelong Learning; Researchers; Depression (Psychology); Unemployment; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Researcher; Forscher; Arbeitslosigkeit
Abstract	Since the 1980s, researchers have formed a much better understanding of how unemployment scars people's lives, not just in the short term, but sometimes for years ahead. Researchers differ on the details, but no one disagrees that the negative effects are serious and long term. In the recession of the 1980s, government schemes to improve people's skills often provoked hostility and resentment among those who took part in them. In this article, the author stresses the need to avoid creating a generation of people condemned to a life of poverty and depression and do better this time around. He suggests one obvious pointer for policy: education and qualifications do matter for people who are unemployed, and pay off not just in the short term but through the life course. He argues that, in a crisis-hit knowledge economy, people need to explore imaginative and radical proposals for combining work and learning, and they need to look ahead, to ensure that the recession is used to invest wisely in long-term skills and capabilities. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10