ABSTRACT
The major hurdles to successful participation in basic, formal and non-formal education and training by the uneducated and excluded in remote, rural and otherwise disadvantaged communities are:
• lack of educational or training providers or infrastructure; • limited schooling handicapping access to post-compulsory education; • lack of a culture conducive to the pursuit of learning; • lack of comprehensive and up-to-date information about courses, careers, entry
requirements, modes of study etc; • lack of suitable courses and modes of communication for linguistic and ethnic
minorities, the socially excluded, older age groups, women, the disabled and the technologically illiterate;
• learners and trainees being unable or unwilling to leave their home areas; • lack of tutorial or peer support for isolated learners or trainees; • lack of access to, or inability to pay for, information and communication technology
(ICT); • other forms of exclusion caused by historical, political, economic or cultural forces.
