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Direct linkFrank, Fiona – Adults Learning, 2009
Lancaster University's Department of Continuing Education has a long tradition of engagement with older learners. Its latest innovation aims to reach out to older people sometimes suspicious of the "university on the hill". This article discusses how Lancaster University develops a "Senior Learner' Programme", which is…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Access to Education, Nontraditional Students, Older Adults
Aldridge, Fiona; Tuckett, Alan – Adults Learning, 2010
NIACE's 2010 representative sample survey of adult participation in learning in the UK shows something of a sea change in adults' engagement in learning. After years in which the numbers reporting participation in learning fell overall, and the gulf between the learning rich and the learning poor widened dramatically, there has been a major…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning
Keep, Ewart; Rogers, David; Hunt, Sally; Walden, Christopher; Fryer, Bob; Gorard, Stephen; Williams, Ceri; Jones, Wendy; Hartley, Ralph – Adults Learning, 2010
With 6 billion British pounds of public spending reductions already on the table, and far deeper cuts inevitable, what are the prospects for adult learning in the new Parliament? Some of the regular contributors of this journal were asked what they expected and what they would like to see. Ewart Keep warns that the coalition parties' commitments…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Finance, Politics of Education, Educational Change
