Lifelong learning concepts, ideas and practices are proliferating rapidly around the world. They take us beyond the age of education and training into an era of learning, in which the development of the skills, values and knowledge of individual thoughout a lifetime becomes the focus for nations, organizations and communities. Worldwide major companies look at principles of lifelong learning to help them meet the challenges of the changing marketplace. OECD, UNESCO and the G7 nations are prioritizing it in major policy announcements. It affects the future of both developed and developing nations. This topical and readable book explains the background to the movement towards lifelong learning and describes its significant implications for the workplace as a learning organization, for the university, the school and teacher training organization, for the community, the nation and, above all, the individual.