This special seminar is one of the final public acts of the Department of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) at the University of Glasgow which, like all departments at the university, will cease to exist in September 2010 following re-structuring. However the activity in what is one of the UK’s and the world’s largest academic departments of its kind will continue and develop in the future, offering programmes of study to citizens and communities within Glasgow, informed by expert knowledge and research that crosses all the disciplines of the university. In this seminar the speakers, all very well known in the field of adult education and with unrivalled international experience, as well as local knowledge and experience, will both reflect on the past and project into the future for the discipline. Despite being battered and bruised in some many parts of the UK, adult education in all its forms still is a vital part of the offer of the publicly engaged university and an important local component of a global offer.  For more information please see attachment.