High Quality Education to Support Lifelong Learning

Question Discuss about the High Quality Education to Support Lifelong Learning. Answer: Projects title The report will focus on delivering the project titled High-quality education to support lifelong learning prototype. The project will be aimed to create awareness of high-quality education provision in supporting lifelong learning and coming up with a prototype programme. Project report introduction The project report is useful in explaining the implementation of the project. It uses both business, strategic, and project framework to execute and implement the project. The business case is used to justify the project why it is necessary to implement the project. The project background will be outlined to explain the reasons why it was necessary to exploit the opportunities in the project(Huber, 2014). To ensure the competitive type of project strategic models of SWOT and porters five competitive strategies will be employed. The project will outline its scope by mentioning specific objectives, assumptions, technical requirements, project scope statement, project scheduling technique by use of WBS(Burke, 2013). To support the empirical finding of the study literature review of the key variables of the study will be provided. The review will gather information from secondary sources of data. Later the project will outline a summary of findings of the project. Business Case justification The current economies of the world are controlled by skills and knowledge originating from quality education. Countries have taken notice of how important education is, and that is the reason why they are changing their own policies and funding initiatives to education(Berlinski, 2009). High-level quality education is seen to have positive effects in promoting economies, improving life, and supporting a sustainable lifelong learning. It is important for policymakers and other stakeholders to focus on enhancing quality education in their respective countries. Many countries are faced with the constraints of resources in delivering their education rights(Kremer, 2006). That has affected currently the education output of countries. According to scholars and researchers, any education programme should be a long-term process. It should focus on promoting future needs by allowing learners to retain necessary knowledge(Alexander, 2000). The need to focus on future prompted the project to carry out a project that will create awareness on the need of having the high-quality education to support lifelong learning. The project report is created to different project sponsors in order to be able to support the execution of the project. Background of the project The project is part of capacity building projects aimed at creating awareness among the society on the importance of quality education. High-quality education refers to delivering the best methodologies, techniques, and contents meeting society needs(Darling, 1994). Any quality education can be delivered by focusing on the current and future needs of the society. According to educationists, lifelong learning involves methodologies and techniques that learners are subjected to that focus on how they can retain the required information for future needs. To ensure the aim of the project is met the project need to identify the methodology that it will employ to target its immediate audiences. It brings an opportunity for policy makers in the education sector to find the findings of the project useful in changing their own education sector to meet lifelong learning goals. The aim of the project can only be achieved by capacity building or creating of awareness to the necessary audience. The society is need of the changes in the education sector because of the problems and complexities that are currently facing them that need solutions. The project implementation would significant to a number of persons and institutions. Project strategic analysis Business analysis is important in identifying the best strategies to be employed, and to justify why it is important to implement a project(Darling, 1994). In this project, one strategic model can be applied to justify the project case. The suitable strategic model that will be employed is the SWOT analysis. It is a strategic analysis that identifies the projects or business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats(Graham, 2013). SWOT analysis is another suitable technique that can be used in place of feasibility studies to identify the role of political, technological, economic, social, legal and environment towards projects. SWOT analysis can be used in this project by categorizing the various components of the model, and later making strategies from them. Table 1 shows the SWOT analysis of the High-quality education to support lifelong learning Table 1 SWOT analysis STRENGTH WEAKNESS Availability of resources Commitments Support from various stakeholders Friendly to the environment Current formal structures in the country/legislations Lack of visionary leaders Increased corruptions It is longitudinal process OPPORTUNITIES THREATS Increased need of learning Changing need of societies Fruits originating from schooling system Focus on future needs Availability of technology Politics originating from policy makers Changes currently occurring in the economy Resistance from individuals not accepting change The management of the project will focus on the strength of the project by ensuring that the project will be implemented. Stakeholder participation will take place to ensure that the weaknesses facing the project will be addressed(Phillips, 2013). Stakeholder management involves a process where various individuals with interest and power towards the project are managed. To ensure that the threats do not affect the project deliverable risk management will be carried out to mitigate and manage the various threats facing the project. Risk management involves a process of identifying, assessing, evaluating, mitigating those risks that will face a project(Scholes, 2014). The project will evaluate its current infrastructure to ensure that the opportunities are tapped and acted upon. SWOT analysis is useful in the implementation of this project because it will help in planning, policy and strategic planning. Project Objectives The broad project objective is to create awareness of high-quality education to support lifelong learning prototype to the members of the society. To achieve the broad objective the following will be specific project objectives: To formulate a framework to be followed in implementing the project To document learning resources that will support the project prototype To create awareness initiatives for the project prototype Descriptions of the project: the First objective will be important in ensuring the project is funded and implemented. It involves creating a project plan or proposal for achieving the project goal. The second objective is important in explaining the importance of the project. Documented learning resources will help support the informal discussion of the project. Objective three is important in informing the various stakeholders on the goal and significance of the project. Problems to be solved: The project is focused on solving the society approach of addressing education as a short-term need. Secondly is to challenge educational stakeholders to utilize available resources to promote quality education. Project perceived benefits: It will help the society to embrace education as a long-term learning process that solves future needs. It will be useful to policymakers they will formulate good policies that will focus on long-term learning for sustainable economic and social growth. Project assumptions and constraints The project will assume that the project will take place and will not be influenced or stopped by education policy makers. It will assume that the right and sufficient financial support will be found to execute the project. Project Scope management The project scope is an important component in defining boundaries of a proposed project. Scope Statement The project will only cover the needs relating to high-quality education and lifelong learning. The target population will be members of the society, and the opinion leaders from the education sector. The budget of the project will be approximate $5000. The duration of the project will be three months. Project deliverables: Finding project sponsor, project plan formulation, documenting learning materials, hosting training and workshops, debates, forums. Technical requirements: financial resources, trainers, stationeries, venues, books, key speakers. Exclusions: changing the curriculum Project WBS A work breakdown structure is an important tool used in scheduling tasks. It is defined as the process of breaking down a project to smaller managed packages(Burke, 2013). Figure 2 shows the WBS of the project. Figure 2 WBS of the project Literature summary of Project/Program A key short summary review of key points literature concerning the project. Key educational informers have found that traditional methods cannot address future needs of the society. There is need to have reforms to have high-quality education programs. Educationists need to identify better ways of improving efficiency in learning institutions but reducing costs as well(Darling, 1994). Several educationists have opined several ways in which high-quality education can enhance lifelong learning. Some of the suggestions include; fostering a positive attitude to learning and using innovative ways of skills development. Different stakeholders in education sector need to have a global dimension of sharing cultures, resources, and practices that will facilitate change and innovation. Others have argued that they need to empower individuals to provide direct support to their own type of learning(King, 1997). Any lifelong learning can be supported with open educational resources and creation of material frameworks. Some of the universities have preferred to develop graduate profiles representing key learning outcomes(Berlinski, 2009). But educationists have been urged to participate in tracking progress in learning and provide any institutional support(Tiwana, 2014). In addition, high-quality learning can be achieved by embracing and integrating new technology in a learning environment(Schwalbe, 2015). Management of education institutions is required to adopt new methods of stressing performance accountability. Summary of the report The report focused on the best business case, strategy to implement the project. SWOT analysis was used to identify the best strategies to be employed when coming up with a unique project. In addition, the project utilized project tools and techniques to justify how the project will be implemented. Scope management plan and the WBS for scheduling activities were used. The theoretical review was outlined to further justify the aim and significance of the project. References Alexander, F. (2000). The changing face of accountability. Journal of higher education, 4, 11-431. Berlinski, S. (2009). The effect of pre-primary education on primary school performance. journal of public economics, 93(1), 219-234. Burke, R. (2013). 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