ABSTRACT
Lifelong education is sometimes understood as a synonym for a number of other terms, all of which have in common the notion of periodic renewal or refreshing of knowledge, for instance, ‘recurrent education, ‘education permanente’, ‘further education, ‘adult education’. Equating lifelong education with recurrent or continuing education can easily lead to the conclusion that it consists simply of the sum total of all institutions engaged in such activities. A system of lifelong education would encompass not only learning in such settings, but also in all settings, formal and informal, highly institutionalized and non-institutionalized. The image of learning and learners deviates from the profile of the university student that is traditionally accepted. Part-time students are not merely different in terms of their patterns of attendance at college and university.
