Hugh Henry, Scottish Labour MSP and his party's education and life long learning spokesperson, called it: "a disappointing statement", saying it was about aspirations, full of commitments, but no detail.

BBC: Post-16 reform statement

Integrate into formal education and life-long learning the knowledge, values, and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.

UNESCO: Understanding sustainable development

My AmeriCorps experience gave me the renewed clarity I needed to pursue this new vision, a vision for a world where the concepts of technology-enabled education, life-long learning, and creation are front and center.

WHITEHOUSE: Turn A Problem Into Your Passion

Media and information literacy, through which individuals acquire a combination of technical and cognitive skills to seek, evaluate and use information effectively, develop critical thinking and acquire the behaviours for life-long learning, is becoming the engine of education in the 21st century.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

It has also created equal life-long learning opportunities for all citizens in the Kingdom who are now able to continue with their education by enrolling in various adult learning centres that have been established across the country or through home-based self-learning.

UNESCO: Adult Learning and Illiteracy Elimination Programme