Publication: The Lifelong Learning Strategies of Finnish Universities
The Finnish Ministry of Education had a committee on lifelong learning in universities during year 2005. The committee was set up to look into the universities’ lifelong learning strategies and their implementation in degree education; the use of open university instruction in degree education and in other adult education; and to look into the situation, structures and financing base in university continuing education. This committee published a report which focuses on the University Lifelong Learning and its development. In this report universities were recommended to review and revise their Adult Education Strategies. The Ministry of Education also requested that the universities formulate their lifelong learning strategies as part of the review of their 2007 operations.
The Ministry of Education made a proposition to University Continuing Education Network in Finland UCEF to analyse the lifelong learning strategies that universities formulated. This proposal was accepted, and UCEF formed a steering committee for this project in cooperation with the Finnish Universities Rectors´ Council. The members of the steering committee were secretary general Liisa Savunen, director Kauko Hämäläinen, director Kari Seppälä and secretary general Hanna-Riikka Myllymäki. Director Paula Lindroos and researcher Siru Korkala wrote the analysis and were also members of the steering committee. The findings and conclusions of this analysis are those of the writers´.