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This book, which is intended for individuals involved in the education of adults and museum education, explores the potential role of museums in creation of a learning society, possibilities for collaboration between museums and adult education providers, access to museum resources by adult learners, and training and staff development. The following papers are included: "Museums Association" (Mark Taylor); "NIACE [National Institute of Adult Continuing Education]: The National Organisation for Adult Learning" (Alan Tuckett); "Introduction" (Alan Chadwick, Annette Stannett); "Gradgrind Driving Queen Mab's Chariot: What Museums Have (and Have Not) Learnt from Adult Education" (David Anderson); "An Adult Educator's Perspective" (Lalage Bown); "A Museum Educator's Perspective" (Eilean Hooper-Greenhill); "The Adult Learner" (David Jones); "Adult Programmes at the King's Lynn Museums"" (Faye Kalloniatis); "Community-Based Adult Education Programmes at the Geffrye Museum" (Steve Hemming); "Multicultural Education: The Mughal Tent Project at the Victoria and Albert Museum" (Shireen Akbar); "Age Exchange: The Potential of Reminiscence" (Pam Schweitzer); "Museums, Means and Motivation: Adult Learning in a Family Context" (Richard Wood); "Access to Museums by Adult Learners with Disabilities" (William Kirby); "Welcoming Adults with Learning Disabilities at Wakefield Museums and Galleries" (Sarah Scaife); "Programmes for Disadvantaged People at Dulwich Picture Gallery" (Gillian Wolfe); "The Open Museum: A Case Study in Co-operation" (Diana Coben, Margarette Lincoln);"Museum Training Institute" (David Wear) (which includes an appendix titled "A Guide to Underpinning Knowledge and Evidence Requirements"); "City and Guilds of London Institute" (Fiona Longmore); "Work Placements at the National Trust" (Suzanne Whitehead); and "Prospects for Future Collaboration" (Hazel Moffat). The book contains 28 references. (MN)

The objectives, curriculum, and role of higher education and key policy and practice issues were reassessed against the backdrop of recent and predicted demographic, economic, and political changes and trends in Great Britain. Special consideration was given to the fact that "mature" learners now constitute the majority of entrants into British higher education. A model was proposed that calls for supporting a learning society by combining the strengths of the following two traditions of British higher education: (1) the pastoral/tutorial models of Oxford, Cambridge, and the new universities of the 1960s; and (2) the vocational and community-based traditions of civic universities and polytechnics. Also developed was an agenda of actions to create a culture where learning is recognized as a universal lifelong activity, empowerment of individuals is seen as key to economic and social development, accreditation seeks to include rather than exclude, higher education is an active contributor to economic activity, diversity is recognized as strength, and the outcomes and achievements of higher education are made explicit. The action agenda contained specific actions regarding the following areas of policy/practice: learner support, curriculum, credit, quality, and resources. Appended is a list of policy group members. (Contains 52 references.) (MN)