lifelong learning

noun

1. the provision or use of both formal and informal learning opportunities throughout people's lives in order to foster the continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed for employment and personal fulfilment

Example Sentences

Clapper was also the executive member for education, libraries and lifelong learning on Hertfordshire County Council - before the Conservatives lost control of that authority.

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Education and Lifelong Learning Minister Rob Ward congratulated all the students elected to their school councils, calling it "a big responsibility but also a fantastic opportunity".

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Our mission is to be “a community hub to a diverse population of Amherst residents, where books are celebrated and all members of the community can enhance their educational, cultural, and lifelong learning pursuits.”

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Inspired by her new-found energy, Yvonne took up a course for comedy at a university's centre for lifelong learning.

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“The pursuit of happiness that our founders meant was not the pursuit of objects in a marketplace of things, but lifelong learning,” Burns observed.

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