International Dictionary of Adult and Continuing Education
The term often used in the United Kingdom to refer to adult education because many of the classes were held in the evenings.
However, adult education classes are now held throughout the day in most adult education institutions. The first evening classes appear to have started in the 1750s in Newcastle, and many of the early ones were in mathematics and the sciences for craftsmen.
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