ERASMUS-EDU-2021-AL-AGENDA-IBA

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NAVETQ leads the actions undertaken under the NESS 2022, under which some promotion and awareness campaigns have been undertaken, and also is responsible to better support VET providers in providing qualitative vocational qualifications relevant to the labour market needs and to the individual’s needs. Adult learning is an important policy issue for Albania, as it is for all South Eastern European countries. Its importance is even higher considering the path and the pace of the economic reforms implemented during transition and the respective consequences, the size, the structure and the development level of the private sector, the average skill level of the work force which far from guarantees the competitiveness of the economy and the labour force in a regionalised and globalised world. At present the concept of adult learning is not well introduced in education and training reform and awareness about it is still a challenge at all levels of governance of the system, as well as among Albanian citizens. The demand for it relates to adults that need to be trained and retrained in order to cope with the ever-changing world of work and is usually described in terms of age, gender, educational attainment, employment status, job characteristics etc7. Better knowledge of adult learning patterns in Albania including considering the barriers and motivations to engagement in adult learning is therefore critical to future policy development.