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Lifelong education is a form of Pedagogy often accomplished through Distance Learning or E-learning , Continuing Education , Homeschooling or Correspondence Course s. It also includes Postgraduate programs for those who want to improve their qualification, bring their skills up to date or retrain for a new line of work. Internal corporate training has similar goals, with the concept of lifelong learning used by organisations to promote a more dynamic employee base, better able to react in an agile manner to a rapidly changing climate. In later life, especially in retirement, continued learning takes diverse forms, crossing traditional academic bounds and including recreational activities. One of the reasons why lifelong education has become so important is the acceleration of scientific and technological progress. Despite the increased duration of primary, secondary and university education (14-18 years depending on the country), the knowledge and skills acquired there are usually not sufficient for a professional career spanning three or four decades. The European Union adopted a Communication in October 2006 entitled "It's never too late to learn". This document suggests lifelong learning to be the core of the ambitious Lisbon 2010-process, in which the whole of the European Union should become a learning area. IN PRACTICE In India and elsewhere, the " University Of The Third Age " (U3A) provides an example of the almost spontaneous emergence of autonomous learning groups accessing the expertise of their own members in the pursuit of knowledge and shared experience. No prior qualifications and no subsequent certificates feature in this approach to learning for its own sake and, as participants testify, engagement in this type of learning in later life can indeed 'prolong active life'. For those who can't physically attend these autonomous learning groups, a virtual U3A, U3A Online, {Link without Title} ,is open to isolated older people from any country. In Sweden the concept of "study circles", an idea launched almost a century ago, still represents a large portion of the adult education provision. The conecpt has since spread, and is a common practice in for instance Finland as well. A study circle is one of the most democratic forms of learning environment created. There are no teachers, the group decides themselves the content and scope as well as the method to use. In recent years 'Lifelong Learning' has been adopted in the UK as an umbrella term for post-compulsory education that falls outside of the UK Higher Education system - Further Education, Community Education, Work-based Learning and similar voluntary, public sector and commercial settings. See Lifelong Learning UK. {Link without Title} LIFELONG LEARNING PROFESSIONALS As the Jagiellonian University Extension defines it, there are seven main professional profiles in the Lifelong Learning domain:
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