Lifelong learning as a reference framework for technical and further education

Abstract

Governments have often forwarded the proposition that education can be employed to address many of society’s challenges: community development, skills shortages, unemployment, economic progress, health and lifestyle issues are just some of the more recent assignments. The concept of education as an institution having the potential to shape society, empower individuals or meet utilitarian ends, however, is not new. Aristotle previously identified this potential.