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UCHC will promote a Professional and Vocational Education
Policy based on the recognition that the people are the richest
resource of the nation. UCHC believe that educational
qualification is a fundamental right of all people and can be an
essential instrument for the building a nation of equals.
Recent researches have shown that many adults without formal
educational qualifications and up to 25 per cent of all adults
have some level of literacy problems. This is one of the lowest
levels of literacy in the industrialized world. The Higher
Education Authority reported in 2000 that there had been no
significant improvement in the number of school-leavers from
disadvantaged backgrounds reaching university over the past five
years.
Qualifications can fundamentally and positively transform
society. At its best, it is child- and student focusing on the
needs, aspirations and talents of each individual learner.
Decades of under-funding, however, have prevented adults from
reaching their full potential through the Red Brick Education
System. The education system continues to mirror and maintain
social division and exclusion. Affordability of adult education
is a myth.
UCHC will support and work for the development of an ethos of
"learning organisation" within the education system. This will
be alongside the building of Learning Neighbourhoods in
meaningful partnerships between business organization and
individuals where life-long learning and experiences will
improve the community and economic needs.
UCHC will campaign in breaking the traditional Red Brick concept
to Professional and Vocational Qualification as the right to
education, for increased sharing of resources and expertise,
easier contact and mobility, and a harmonisation of the two
systems based on equality and inclusion.
More support is needed for Third Level Professional and
Vocational Education as most of the countries that have basic
literacy problems.
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