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Tight, Malcolm – 1991
This book considers the meaning of part-time higher education, illustrates its scope, and looks at its relation to higher education as a whole. It provides a guide to the past, present, and future of part-time higher education in the United Kingdom. The book describes the institutions and students involved, and the context in which they operate.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Distance Education, Educational Development, Educational History
Massey, T. Benjamin – 1979
Two questions are addressed: (1) How can existing organizational structures and practices be developed where none have previously existed? The phenomenon of the adult postsecondary student is a fundamental demographic shift not initiated by the institutions but to which they must nonetheless respond. The organizational structure of the University…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Students, Articulation (Education), College Faculty
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
The applications of telecommunications technology, computers, and other technologies are addressed in five papers. In an overview, Raymond J. Lewis, Jr. suggests that colleges and universities are finding that telecommunication technologies offer cost effective ways of reaching adult learners, and that open broadcast television has been the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Broadcast Television, Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction
Hodgson, Ann, Ed. – 2000
This document contains 13 papers on the policies, politics, and future of lifelong learning in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe. The following papers are included: "An International and Historical Context for Recent Policy Approaches to Lifelong Learning in the UK" (Ann Hodgson); "The Vocational Training Policy of the European…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, College Programs, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems