Demand your right to learn

We’re hearing reports about multiple job losses. What these indicate is no job is secure any more. Charles Handy talks about the “new psychological contract” between employer and employee as being “we may no longer employ you for ever, but will make sure you stay employable”.
So it’s generally accepted to stay employable, we have to continuously develop our skills.

Unfortunately the Government does n’t take this view, despite another report on the need for an additional 500,000 people to be up skilled. (I’ll come back to this report another time)

So if want to up skill yourself and decide to go back to college part time, tough you’ll pay fees.
If you go full time you won’t pay fees but now what do you live on? To claim the “dole” you must be available for work and to claim the Back to Education allowance you must be unemployed for a period of 6 to 12 months as appropriate.
There’s a whole range of barriers to adults trying to access further education.

Aontas the national association for adult education is launching a new

“Demand your right to learn”

pre –election campaign with ten key demands to improve the situation for adult learners.
Whether you’re thinking about a PhD or doing the leaving cert these demands if implemented could help you.

If you would like to sign their petition click here

For more details on the campaign click here

Keywords

demand your right to learn
career up skilling