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Lifelong Learning inside and outside the walls of the academy: Looking back and looking forward

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There is a crisis in the participation of part-time and mature students in the UK’s universities. Though England has experienced by far the steepest decline, universities in Scotland and Wales have also seen a sharp fall in the proportion of part-time and mature students on their courses. Moreover, with their increasingly exclusive focus on young full-time students, many institutions have closed their extra mural departments that had provided courses for the community beyond their campus.

Call for papers: Adult learning between national tensions and transnational challenges

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At the Network’s last conference in 2015, hosted by our colleagues at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, we discussed how substantial learning is connected with the everyday life of adults, with the environment and social milieus they live in, with their efforts to tackle social inequalities, injustices, and to enhance their quality of life and well-being.

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