The focus of this article is to highlight adult education in Saudi Arabia. It also investigates the roles of early official and volunteering initiatives that established the adult education and literacy system in Saudi Arabia. In addition, a brief overview of the development of adult agencies such as Night Literacy Schools and Adult Education…

The author's father left school aged 13 at the start of the Great Depression. When he finally found work the wealth of educational opportunity he encountered inspired him with a lifelong love of learning. He signed up for evening classes and loved anything and everything to do with what he proudly called self-improvement. As a novice to retirement…

Westchester Community College, which teaches English to about 4,000 non-native speakers each year, has one of the most comprehensive English as a Second Language programs in the country. It's also leading the charge to transform immigrant education and make it a national priority. In 2008, the college started the Community College Consortium for…

A British adult education course in minerals processing provided an opportunity to teach basic scientific principles in the context of an evolving industry but presented a recruiting challenge overcome by creative publicity. (SK)

Many dropouts or "pushouts" from Louisiana schools genuinely want to be educated, despite their occasional indifference, their seeming inability to conform to guidelines, and their often explosive tempers. Originally intended as an adult night school, the Caddo P.M. Senior High School in Shreveport helps dropouts stay in school and earn…

The College Marie-Victorin and La Presse, a French Canadian daily newspaper, have formed a partnership to offer distance education. Five stages have occurred in the transition from programmed instruction to extension courses. Programmed instruction offered by the college has been followed by four stages of courses offered by the college in…

Summarizes the attempts by the Board of Education in England to develop policy in relation to adult education and "further education" as a whole that began in 1909 and ended by World War II. Identifies the emergence of modern adult education stemming from developments in municipal evening schools and the university extension movement.…

Presents information about adult education programs in Romania. Discusses general education and vocational training (evening programs, secondary school classes, extramural education courses), improving vocational and professional capabilities, cultural-scientific mass education, and other educational programs. (CT)

For many years, St. Louis Community College at Meramec has offered two distinct sets of foreign language courses: day and evening credit courses on elementary and intermediate levels and noncredit, adult evening classes on elementary I and II levels. The 10-week adult courses were usually taught by part-time instructors, although full-time faculty…

The author discusses the promotion of basic general education as a main area of adult education, the adult population's level in basic general education and the desire to study school courses, the procedure for studying and passing school examinations, studying for and passing school courses, and the future of Finnish education. (CT)

This bulletin provides a statement showing in some detail the amount of illiteracy in the United States among men, women, and children over 10 years of age according to the Federal Census of 1910; also a brief statement of an experiment which has been conducted for nearly two years in one of the mountain counties of eastern Kentucky having a large…

Discusses adult and continuing education programs in the public school district and the use of these programs to engender community support for the school in passing school budgets. Gives examples of efforts in Scotia-Glenville Central Schools, Scotia, New York: various evening classes, career guidance services, and teacher in-service credit…

The growing consciousness on the part of adults that they should continue their education is revealing itself by a general and growing interest in the public evening schools. There are those who think that this movement is one of the most important for race betterment that the world has ever known. It is but natural that taxpayers who have…

In response to demographic changes and their impact on graduate higher education enrollment, universities are looking at innovative methods to increase enrollment, revise programs of study and improve instructional delivery systems. Institutions are attracting older adult students by altering admission policies, establishing adult student services…

Tilonia, a typical rural village of the State of Rajasthan (India), is home to the Social Work and Research Centre (SWRC). Since 1972, SWRC has brought educational services, safe drinking water, health care, and employment to villages in the area. It has started 150 night schools in 89 villages, where children who work during the day develop…