THE PROVISION OF ADULT EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

In one of the volumes of the 1980 handbook of the Adult Education Association of the United States (to be succeeded by the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education) Knowles (1980c) and Griffiths (1980) both raised the issues of how adult education should be coordinated. Griffiths (1980:113) maintained that:

Coordination may prove to be the missing ingredient in forging an integrated and efficient system of lifelong education that will attract and serve millions of adults who presently cannot find programs that offer a means of achieving more satisfying and rewarding lives.