There has been a fundamental shift in participation levels in higher education across countries over the last 15 years of the 20th century. Typically characterized as a shift from elite to a mass system, there have been many fundamental changes - not least in the participation levels in many countries reaching some 50 per cent. In an attempt to reconcile demand for higher education, many countries focused on reforming the education system into a system of lifelong learning. This was seen as a system for updating and retraining those who had attended higher education and offering alternative...
There has been a fundamental shift in participation levels in higher education across countries over the last 15 years of the 20th century. Typically ...
Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world. At the start of the new century the concept of Lifelong Learning may indeed be counted as one of the the key organising concepts underlying public policy in many countries. The interpretation of the concept, however, remains highly contested. This timely book throws new light on the dramatic changes taking place in higher education through an exploration of the participation of "non-traditional"...
Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of th...
The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher education has remained relatively underdeveloped.
This book focuses on a particular dimension of the lifelong learning: higher education for those who have not progressed directly from school to higher education. Some will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature students,...
The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning...
The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher education has remained relatively underdeveloped. This book focuses on a particular dimension of the lifelong learning: higher education for those who have not progressed directly from school to higher education. Some will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature students, part-time and/or...
The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has fi...
