Dictionary of British Education
A policy based on the view that compulsory education should be regarded as the first stage in the educational process, followed if not by further education or higher education, then by a series of returns to courses of education throughout the period of adult life.
Recurrent education can be vocational or professional or entirely non-vocational, but there tends to be an association of recurrent education with the idea of updating professional skills. (See also adult education, continuing education, in-service education of teachers, permanent education)
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