Continuing Education
Continuing Education is understood as the set of training activities developed to improve both the skills and qualifications of professionals in training and the retraining of employed professionals, allowing for greater competitiveness for companies to be compatible with individual professional development. Continuing Education is also understood as any lifelong learning activity aimed at improving knowledge, skills, and abilities from a personal, civic, social, or employment-related perspective.
The concept of Continuing Education, understood as a comprehensive approach, breaks with traditional concepts. With its implementation, the conventional distinctions between «education» and «training» and the division of human life into three clearly separate stages: school, work, and retirement, become meaningless.
Continuing Education is fundamentally aimed at achieving the following basic objectives:
- Strengthen the qualification level of professionals in different sectors, thus avoiding qualification stagnation and improving their employment and professional status.
- Respond to the specific needs of organizations and companies.
- Strengthen the competitiveness of institutions and companies.
- Adapt human resources to technological innovations and new forms of work organization.
- Promote the development of new economic activities.
The Continuing Education strategy not only pursues economic objectives, but also aims to enable professionals to develop personally and actively participate in an increasingly complex society that requires higher qualifications to meet diverse needs, both professionally and personally.
In short, Continuing Education, understood as updating knowledge and acquiring new skills and qualifications, is a task that must continue throughout life.