Many valuable activities and local innovations go on in the field of non-formal adult learning. With the pressures of day-today work it is impossible to have a systematic overview of these, so that they are forgotten and are not continued, developed or passed on to others. More generally, these activities fail to be documented and analysed, even…

Reviews historical antecedents of adult education in Hungary, aims and effects of socialist education 1949-89, and the enormous changes in the wake of political change, including increased demand for training and greater numbers of unemployed and disadvantaged persons. (SK)