ABSTRACT

By themselves attempts to increase working-class participation in the kind of education we already provide are likely, at best, to have only marginal success. Certainly in both the WEA and the universities we have lived for too long with the myth that a commitment to working-class education publicly asserted, plus the experience of the past, can somehow make recruitment to our classes more repiesentative. If we are really serious in wanting to achieve this as one of our long-term aims, then we have to develop a new kind of provision alongside the existing programmes of classes.