ABSTRACT
Objectives of graduate programmes in adult education must be rooted in the characteristics and needs of their students. According to Knowles, planning a programme of graduate study in adult education is more complex than merely establishing objectives. What is important is that each professor of adult education familiarise himself with the Chamberlain and Aker studies or go through some such process as Knowles has suggested, that more studies like those of Chamberlain and Aker be made, and that theorising about objectives for programmes of graduate study in adult education continue. The reader will understand why education is omitted: most programmes of graduate study in adult education are located in schools of education, so their students get as much of this discipline as they need. One problem in the development of any programme of graduate study is where to locate it and how to organise it. The programmes of graduate study in adult education are located in schools of education.
