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14.Older People's Education "Neglected"
14.“被忽視的”老年教育
Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, according to a new study on population published recently.
根據最近發表的一項新的人口研究報告顯示：老年人要想不成為社會的負擔，想繼續發揮余熱，就必須給他們更多學習機會。
The current approach which focuses on younger people and on kills for employment is not adequate to meet the challenges of demographic change, it says. Only 1% of the education budget is currently spent on the oldest third of the population.
該報告聲稱：現在的教育方法傾向于年輕人和職業技能，難以應付人口結構變化的挑戰。占人口總數三分之一的老年人只占有百分之一的教育預算。
The challenges include the fact that most people can expect to spend a third of their lives in retirement, that there are now more people over 59 than under 16 and that 11.3 million people are over state pension age.
這些挑戰包括：多數人三分之一的生命將在退休后度過；五十九歲以上人數高于十六歲以下人數；一千一百三十萬人達到了國家法定領取退休金年齡。
"Learning needs to continue throughout life. Our historic concentration of policy attention and resources on young people cannot meet the new needs," says the report's author, Professor Stephen Mcnair.
報告的作者史蒂芬·麥克威爾教授說：“學習應該貫穿人生的整個過程，我們以前的政策重心和資源配置更多偏重于年輕人，難以適應新的需求。”
The major portion of our education budget is spent on people below the age of 25. When people are changing their jobs, homes, partners and lifestyles more than ever, they nees opportunities to learn at every age. For example, some people are starting new careers in their 50s and later.
教育預算的大部分花費在二十五歲以下的人身上。當人們比以前更頻繁地更換工作、居住地、生活伴侶和生活方式的時候，處在各種年齡段的人們都需要學習的機會。”例如，有些人到了五十多歲或更遲又重新開始創業。
People need opportunities to make a "midlife review" to adjust to the later stages of employed life, and to plan for transition to retirement, which may now happen unpredictably at any point from 50 to over 90, says McNair.
人們需要一個“中年回首”的機會來適應以后的工作生涯，規劃退休后的角色轉化。這種轉化現在可以發生在五十歲到九十多歲的漫長時間內。
And there should be more money available to support people in establishing a sense of identity and finding constructive roles for the "third age", the 20 or more years they will spend in healthy retired life.
應該有更多的資金來保證人們建立身份認知和在“第三年齡段”——也就是退休后二十或更多年的健康生活中——找到建設性角色。
