Dictionary of British Education
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 life. Thus the emphasis in continuing education is on breaking the barrier between formal and informal education, institutions of education and real life. (See also University of the Third Age (U3A))
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