The role of higher education in promoting lifelong learning

This new UIL publication reports on how higher education institutes (HEIs) face a strategic imperative to broaden access to lifelong learning opportunities and ensure that education and learning are available to a diverse student population. Given the on-going process of globalization, demographic s...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hamburg, Germany UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning © 2015
Series:Lifelong learning policies and strategies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Adult access to higher education: An international overview/ Michael Osborne, Russell Rimmer and Muir Houston-- From university lifelong learning to lifelong learning universities: Developing and implementing effective strategies /Françoise de Viron and Pat Davies
  • The social efficiency of tertiary lifelong learning: Initial insights from a European research project / Karsten Krüger, Nestor Duch, Marti Parellada, Michael Osborne, Michele Mariani and Laureano Jiménez
  • Higher education in lifelong learning in South Africa / Shirley Walters
  • Higher education and lifelong learning in Japan: Why is it so difficult to promote recurrent education?/Yukiko Sawano
  • The role of universities in elder education: The experience of Shanghai and Shanghai Normal University / ZHANG Minxuan and XU Jinjie
  • Lifelong learning in practice / Allie Clemans
  • The parallel adult education system: A Danish contribution to lifelong learning at university level / Bjarne Wahlgren
  • From Marx to Market: Limitations of university-led 'collaboration' in the Yangpu (Shanghai) Innovation Zone/ Roger Boshier