대학평생교육정책의 실태분석과 전략

Abstract

In the era of a lifelong learning society and human resources development, diversification and liberalization are becoming global trends. In the meantime, various policies have been drafted and implemented in universities with a focus on the school age population, Nevertheless, there have been few policies that provide higher education benefits to adult learners. However, assuming that education is the most optimal system for the development of human resources and the knowledge economy, it is imperative that local residents and adult learners develop themselves and acquire knowledge and skills through higher education. Continuing Higher Education has been expanding and developing, and recently the government has been supporting it with huge budgets. With this in mind, this paper has explored the evolution, practices, and challenges on continuing higher education in Korea. As a result, it has learned that continuing higher education policies have revealed various problems and development tasks. Therefore, 'University Lifelong Education Policy' centered on degree programs should be transformed into 'College Lifelong Education Ecosystem Policy' which includes non-formal and informal education for lifelong learning. Furthermore, the government's policy to support university lifelong education should allocate the budget equally to both the degree and non-degree programs. In addition, this budget should be shifted to an infrastructure support project for the development of adult learners' capacity and the creation of lifelong learning ecosystems at universities for the connection with the community. University lifelong learning policies can also be maximized when implemented with a monitoring system supported with a budget allocated by a long-term development plan road map which is set by vision, purpose, goals, strategy and performance task.