non-formal education definition

non-formal education means any organized educational activity taking place outside the framework of the formal education system and targets specific groups/categories of persons with life skills, values and attitudes for personal and community development;
non-formal education means educational instructions received by persons who are not in the formal education system including adult education;
non-formal education means the education, of a person upto fifteen years of age who has not attended any educational institution at any time before or as the case may be, who is a drop out from an educational institution at any level of his studies therein to enable him to enter the formal educational system at an appropriate level;

More Definitions of non-formal education

non-formal education means any planned programme of education designed to improve a range of skills and competences, outside the formal educational setting.
non-formal education means education that has a formal curriculum, but does not take place within the traditional classroom setting;
non-formal education means any planned programme of education de- signed to improve a range of skills and competences, outside the formal ed- ucational setting.
non-formal education means education that has a formal
non-formal education means educational activities which have clear target groups of service users and educational objectives, forms, curricula, methods of provision and course or training durations which are flexible and diverse according to the needs and learning aptitudes of such target groups, and standard procedures for assessments and evaluations of educational performance for the benefit of granting educational credentials or classification of educational performances;
non-formal education means part – time education provided to children generally below 15 years of age corresponding to primary or upper primary stage;
non-formal education means aneducational activity which has an obvious target client group and education objective, and has flexible and various format, curriculum, method, and duration of course or training in accordance with the educational requirement and potential of such target group, and has an up-to-standard examination and assessment method to receive educational qualification, or to rank academic results;