Lifelong learning driving universities’ ambitions for advanced teaching and research? Dare we? Can we? Let’s!

14/15 May

Within many universities, lifelong learning and adult education teeter on the brink of a vicious cycle of low status, poor resourcing, and reducing relevance. Within Europe and the wider world departments devoted to adult education are under threat while universities shift focus from the marginalised to attracting talented researchers and raising their international profile.