An Adult Higher Education: A Vision of a Future

Abstract

Since 1990 mature learners have been in a majority in British higher education. Reports on a recent policy paper from NIACE which explores the implications of this, proposing a set of principles on which the new “adult higher education” should be based. Higher education should be reconceived as a kind of learning not of institution, and that it should be lifelong, learner‐centred, achievement‐led, economically proactive, explicit and diverse. Also defines a set of three frameworks – for learner support, curriculum and credit – around which it might be built. Also reports on the results of the Institute′s national consultation about the paper.

Citation

McNair, S. (1994), "An Adult Higher Education: A Vision of a Future", Education + Training, Vol. 36 No. 8, pp. 3-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/00400919410073787