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Direct linkStanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2009
The term "open university" was coined by that visionary "seedsman" of reformist ideas Michael Young in an article for a 1962 number of "Where?" magazine. He proposed an "open university" to prepare people for external degrees at London University, with three key functions: (1) to organise new and better…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Residential Schools, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSmith, Andrew – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
In a specialist further education college, it was recognised that students aged 16/17 transferring to vocational study after their compulsory schooling were refusing to take up their entitlement to additional learning support. This created a shortfall in the college's predicted units of funding; also, course managers reported that several of these…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Vocational Education, College Transfer Students, Interviews
