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University Continuing Education 1981-2006: Twenty Five Turbulent Years
Author(s): Bill Jones (Editor), Russell Moseley (Editor), Geoffrey Thomas (Editor)
- Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1862014469
- ISBN-13: 9781862014466
Book Description
Over the last 25 years, continuing education departments at universities in the UK have come under unprecedented threat, with many closing or changing beyond recognition. Yet, this has occurred over the same period that their central values of social equity, accessibility, and learner engagement are at the heart of the current rhetoric of wider and more inclusive participation in higher education. This book explores the many changes in UK continuing education from 1981 to 2006, including case studies of individual university departments. It also looks at the role of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning. As the old continuing education tradition disappears, its story should be told, and, equally importantly, the driving principles of the university adult education system have a valuable contribution to make in informing future strategy and policy in higher education lifelong learning.
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About the Author
William Jones is the former Development Officer for Higher Education at NIACE. He was Director of Continuing Education at Southampton and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Newcastle. Russell Moseley has been Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Warwick University since 2002 having joined the Centre’s predecessor, the Department of Continuing Education, in 1988. Geoffrey Thomas is President Emeritus of Kellogg College, Oxford and is the former Director of the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford.
