The Third Conference of the ESREA Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education “Equity, Social Justice and Adult Education and Learning Policy” will take place on 8-10 June 2017, at the University of Verona, Italy.

GCID and Robert Owen Centre Lunchtime Talk, 22 November: An emerging shift in the purposes of education?

Although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights included a specific paragraph on the purposes of education, the main thrust of international education policy since 1950 has been to universalize access to primary education (and, to a lesser extent, ‘fundamental’ education).