Call for strategy on life-long education

The head of the University's Department of Education Studies has called for a national action plan on life-long education, an endeavour which started some years back but fizzled out in 2004.

Peter Mayo said a draft action plan had been drawn up years back but the initiative stopped and the document never made it to the public consultation stage.

He was speaking during a seminar on adult education organised by the General Workers' Union, yesterday.

Prof. Mayo warned against a plan that is so rigid as to suffocate individual initiatives under heavy bureaucratic processes and insisted that he believes there is space for a national strategy.

Closing the seminar, GWU general secretary Tony Zarb said the union was committed to the idea of the "complete individual". This, Mr Zarb added, necessitates not only the freedom to work but also the freedom to a decent life with educational opportunities.