ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the responses made by agencies and institutions to the educational and other needs of unemployed adults. Vocational training agencies will seek to serve a client set of current and potential employers and provide courses on the basis of manpower planning. Community development agencies will view education as a possible element in a process of change. Unemployed people themselves do not always make distinctions such as these and may use non-vocational classes for job related purposes as well as attend a craft or technologically orientated course for interest only. Provision for unemployed adults can take place outside educational institution premises, in libraries, church halls, leisure, youth or community centres, voluntary centres and unemployment centres. The initiatives by the Industrial Studies Unit in Hull University Department of Adult Education are described by Daniel Vulliamy in the journal ‘The Industrial Tutor’.
