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CR&DALL Director attends expert meeting on universities and lifelong learning at UIL in Hamburg on 4/5 February 2020

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Expert group who met at UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg on 4/5 February 2020

CR&DALL Director Professor Michael Osborne was amongst an expert group who met at UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg on 4/5 February 2020 to discuss the development of a programme of work concerning how universities contribute to the implementation of lifelong learning and the development of lifelong learning as a research field.

British Adult Educator Remembered

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Richard Taylor and Roger Fieldhouse: EP Thompson knew progress was won from below – a fact that the elite would always rather we forget. The Guardian, 31 Dec 2013

Roger Fieldhouse, who has died aged 79 after short illness, was a prominent adult educator in the university sector from 1970 until his retirement in the early 2000s.

He began his career as Tutor-Organiser for the WEA in North Yorkshire in the mid-1960s and rapidly became a successful local history tutor and researcher. (His book on ‘The History of Swaledale’ was the most substantial publication of many in this field.)

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