ABSTRACT

This short article aims to describe four aspects of the education of adults in Northern Ireland during the last 15 years which are in some sense distinctive. These are the institutional foundations of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the growth of community education during the 1970s, educational guidance in the Province, and the work of the Council for Continuing Education. To highlight such development is of course to present a less than comprehensive picture, and in particular to do injustice to continuing work, such as that of the Further Education sector, industrial training, or the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the Queen’s University of Belfast, which is less novel.