Opinion

Columns and essays in ELM Magazine approach current issues from personal and engaging perspectives.

Duygu Güner is a labour economist at Bruegel
Learning & teaching, Opinion

Duygu Güner: “Ignoring the hidden barriers behind low training participation is no longer an option”

In her Speakers’ Corner column, economist Duygu Güner describes the past year as being marked by an enthusiastic discussion on skills shortages and the imperative of continuous reskilling/upskilling efforts in the EU. Nevertheless, determining how to increase low training participation rates remains the main challenge. Speakers’ Corner columns are produced in cooperation with EAEA, the European Association for the Education of Adults.

Duygu Güner
Opinion

Making health literacy everyone’s business: How Ireland got adult and health literacy on the government agenda

Helen Ryan, in her column, tells how a crucial strategy by the new government played a vital role in prioritising health literacy on the national agenda in Ireland. According to her, the most successful way to promote health literacy issues among health professionals was by telling about people’s lived experience. Data and statistics were important, but it was the human stories that resonated the most.

Helen Ryan
Opinion

Development aid a must for building democracy in Palestine

Anne Tastula, in her column, brings attention to an important matter: the allocation of development aid to the Palestinian territories. Concerns about the potential misappropriation of funds and their alleged connection to terrorist groups have raised questions about the sustainability of aid from European countries. However, Tastula emphasizes the imperative need to recognise the crucial role that development aid plays in addressing the stability of the area.

Anne Tastula