Adult learning in Europe – pretty gloomy; but women do better

I've just looked at the EU Monitor on education and training 2012.   The EU target is for 15% of adults to take part in adult learning by 2015.    There's no chance this will be reached;  in fact the participation rate is going down.  In 2011 it was 8.9%, for formal and informal learning combined. 'Adults' are defined as 25-64. At some point countries are going to have to adjust their statistical categories to reflect demography, and push up the upper age boundary. As you can guess, I looked for the gender split. It's 8.2% for men, and 9.6% for women - nearly 20% higher. Only in Turkey and Rumania do more men…
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