A movement that began in the second half of the nineteenth century—instigated mainly by James Stuart, then a Fellow at Cambridge—which attempted to set up a ‘peripatetic university’ in towns where none existed. Following the...

A term that overlaps adult education, permanent education and recurrent education, but is not synonymous with any of them. With continuing education the emphasis is on the idea that education in its true form proceeds throughout an individual’s...

Formed in 1982 at the San Antonio Conference as a result of a merger between the Adult Education Association of the United States of America and the National Association for Public Continuing and Adult Education. This has become the national...

University’s adult education outreach. First suggested at Exeter College, Oxford University, by William Sewell in 1850. James Stuart, University of Cambridge, gave the first extension lectures in 1873. The movement spread widely throughout the...

Continuing education is an all encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. Recognized forms of post-secondary learning activities within the domain include; degree credit courses by non-traditional...