The idea of education as a tool for continuing development and enrichment poses major challenges for higher education that cannot be sidestepped. (LBH)

Byron Spring DELTA Center serves a small farming community in Colorado offers high school diploma programs, English-as-a-Second-Language courses, lifelong learning, and a variety of other programs for teens and adults. (JOW)

Describes the development of a flexible learning center at the rural Kalgoorlie campus of Curtin University (Australia). Discusses the flexible delivery approach to providing training that is responsive to client needs, the center's physical resources, staff development for flexible delivery, practices at other flexible learning centers, staffing,…

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…

The Center for Vocational Personnel Development at the University of Pittsburgh has provided preservice and inservice development of professional vocational education personnel for comprehensive high schools and area vocational-technical schools in the southwestern region of Pennsylvania since the mid-1970s. Although field-based, performance-based…

Readarama, a weekly reading group, was conducted in a retirement center in Athens, Georgia. Participants in the voluntary group were retired women who were lifelong readers and who continued to enjoy reading as a hobby. Because of differences in reading interests and in time available for reading, members read independently during the week;…

As part of a UNESCO program to assist the government of Greece in the preparation and implementation of a five-year plan for the development of adult education, an expert in the field and four Fellows were chosen to study adult education trends in Scotland, England, Denmark, France, Switzerland, and the Federal Republic of Germany. As a result of…

The adult education directory was prepared for three purposes: as a guide for counselors and adult students who wish to know what courses are available in Tanzania to meet their special interests and needs; to inform adult educators of the present provisions and fields of study covered by existing organizations; and to offer information on the…

The book contains selected speeches by Dr. J. R. Kidd delivered around the world during the last two decades. The author has related man's problems and progress with the nature and quality of education. The emphasis is on the relationship between the development of the faculties of the mind and the good of the society as well as the enrichment of…

Two speeches on residential adult education were given on the occasion of the dedication of The Continuing Education Center at Rutgers University on June 1, 1970. After a brief review of the development of residential education, the first speech discussed the challenges presented to those responsible for the functions to be planned for the…

The Independent Study Project of the Dallas Public Library has as its primary goal the testing of the feasibility of utilizing an existent public institution, the library, for enabling qualified persons to earn credits toward a degree through independent study and examination. More proximate goals are: (a) the assessment of demand locally for…

Two-year continuing education project jointly sponsored by Oklahoma County Libraries System and South Oklahoma City Junior College is described. (KP)

The operational philosophy of community education is based on the concept that learning is a lifelong process and that schools at all levels should help provide various kinds of learning experiences for community members of all ages. (JD)