Compared to increasing demand for vocational and lifelong education in an ageing society, there has not been enough educational programs and facilities for the aged. What is worse, there has been little studies for vitalizing these programs. This stud...
Compared to increasing demand for vocational and lifelong education in an ageing society, there has not been enough educational programs and facilities for the aged. What is worse, there has been little studies for vitalizing these programs. This study analyzes the factors that might affect the decision of the semi-aged to participation in vocational and lifelong education using KLIPS(Korean Labor and Income Panel Study). Previous studies have pointed out time and cost as the most influential deterrents to participation. This study sheds some light on desire to participation that might influence the participation ratio in vocational and lifelong education. For this purpose, we categorized the semi-aged into two groups according to desire to participation. and we compare the participation ratio for each group. We found that desire to participation in vocational and lifelong education has been very low from 1998 to 2003 while the participation ratio of the semi-aged has been growing for the group that has strong desire to participation. This result shows that weak desire might be an important deterrent to participation in vocational and lifelong education. Finally, we suggest an alternative approach to resolving low participation of the semi-aged focusing on weak desire rather than deterrents to participation.