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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.

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