"Continuing learning right into later life is proving to be extraordinary successful, but relatively few people do that, " he warned.

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The key to its ambitious, all-embracing programme is that it does not consider literacy in isolation but as part of continuing education and learning throughout life.

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The second award of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy goes to the Municipal Literacy Coordinating Council, Municipality of Agoo, La Union, Philippines, for its Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Programme, which makes available a vast array of education and training opportunities to the entire population, including the neediest.

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Dr. Mendelson adds that measured EQ scores can improve in small increments over time, but significant gains can be seen by building awareness, and continuing a focused and facilitated learning process for people who wish to improve.

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It answers girls' needs for a space of their own (one not dominated by boys) for learning vocational skills and for continuing their education.

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People appointed OBE include Carol Taylor, director of development and research at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, for services to adult learning.

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To this end, NOCEAD has established community-based continuing education centres (CECs) and community learning centres (CLC) where literacy and vocational training classes and community development activities are undertaken through the coordination of field facilitators.

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When "e-learning" does take hold over the next two years, however, education will become a continuing process, as companies educate their employees via the Internet, Chambers said.

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