Diverse national and local policies represent efforts to guarantee inclusive and equitable quality education and provide lifelong learning for all (SDG4). Their effects have the potential to alter local access to education. There has been a lot of research on the factors that led certain universities to embrace distance learning programs in their…

The aim of the study to examine the characteristics of the programs conducted by the Continuing Education Centers (CECs), to reveal whether these programs serve for equality, and to identify the institutional barriers related to the CEC programs against adult education. CECs aim to fulfill the educational needs of adults and/or sectors in…

The author feels the focus of academia should be expanded to include meeting the educational needs of the community. The responsibilities and needs of universities and individuals in continuing studies is described. (Author/TS)

Several different university policy options toward continuing education are defined and examined. Examples described are from European universities. (MDR)

Article is concerned with the development of university adult education from which pressures have emerged for the development of universal styles and methods of working. (Author/RK)

A collaborative partnership has evolved between the Riverina Environmental Education Centre (REEC) and Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. The Riverina Environmental Education Centre (REEC) is one of 24 Department of Education and Training environmental education centres in New South Wales (see www.reec.nsw.edu.au). As part of this…

Predicts that extension education services will be part of the university curriculum and a responsibility of the university administration. Paper presented at the NUEA Joint Regional Conference on November 30, 1972, in San Francisco. (DS)

A sense of urgency about meeting demands for university continuing education has resulted in bewilderment and disarray; pilot projects (Kellogg Foundation Centers, University of Chicago Center) offer hope, but six major problem areas require university dedication to philosophy and purpose, that continuing education may be rescued from mediocrity…

TWO PRINCIPLES SHOULD GUIDE CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS--(1) EVERY OFFERING OF AN INSTITUTION DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ADULTS SHOULD REFLECT THE STRENGTHS AND CAPABILITIES OF THAT INSTITUTION, AND (2) EVERY CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM SHOULD BE THOROUGHLY INTEGRATED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE CAMPUS INVOLVED. THE JUNIOR…

This directory lists academic institutions and service organizations which report major training programs for practice in corrections, law enforcement, and the courts. Part one lists the colleges, universities, and graduate professional schools which offer a major course of study for practice in the field of criminal justice. Part two contains a…

Examines the extension education services to part-time students contending that quality services can be accomplished when the institution as a whole begins to view off-campus part-time students not as second-class citizens who merely provide welcome sources of additional enrollments but as equal seekers of the benefits of postsecondary education.…

This study is concerned with the historical development of certain areas of university extension--credit and noncredit courses, correspondence study, and conferences, institutes, and short courses--which appear widespread and important in current extension programs. Credit and noncredit courses and correspondence study were among the earliest…

THE NEW YORK STATE UNIVERSITY MASTER PLAN FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION CALLS FOR PROGRAMS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT ACHIEVED INITIAL EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL OBJECTIVES, AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED INITIAL EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, FOR MAKING ITS RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE, FOR EXTENDING ITS CULTURAL RESOURCES TO THE PUBLIC, AND FOR…

In the United States, most labor education is conducted by labor unions and university centers; it is not universally available throughout the country, but rather concentrated in the industrial northeast and middle west. National unions representing about half of the labor unionists conduct most of the education; they determine their own…