As one of the peripheral areas in the state's provision of education, adult education in evening institutes has always been the first to be questioned and criticized, and the first to be restrained and curtailed by administrative or financial restirctions. (Author/EB)

This book deals with three aspects of adult non-vocational classes as provided directly by Local Education Authorities: fees charged in recent years and the association of variations in them with numbers of enrollments; variations in the provision of classes as between authorities of comparable size; and patterns of student enrollment as revealed…