Since the late 1960s research in adult education and the training of adult educators have been important aspects of a well-based adult education system in Romania. The author traces the recent historical background of the development of these emphases, and briefly describes current Romanian training programs and a research symposium. (AJ)

Although administrators persist in preserving separate categories for "vocational" and "non-vocational" education, the dichotomy is increasingly being seen as irrelevant. The authors show how liberal education can play an important part even in specific training programs. (Author)

Describes a project designed to help handicapped people become more independent by providing them with relevant information and advice. (JOW)

Indicates some of the possibilities of using the BBC microcomputer to improve the administration and advertising potential of adult education centers. Discusses how the micro has been used for word processing, enrollment records, in-house administration, course advertising, and information service. (JOW)

Adult educators should consider the possibilities of extending their concern to the field of leisure activities to avoid continuation of programs oriented toward a minority of the population. (NL)

Reports the findings of a study of local education authority provision for adults with an interest in personal computing. (JOW)

Provides an overview of recent developments of trade union education and examines some of the problems that have arisen. (JOW)

There is dire and most urgent need for coherent reform in the financial provision for adult education. This should be according to a defined national policy and less subject than at present to the sectionalized and highly variable decision-making of separate local authorities. (EB)

To avoid the loss of learning caused by the usual week's time-gap between adult evening classes, Lutterworth Community College offered an intensive French course, meeting four evenings a week for two hours. (EB)

The author presents a number of innovative adult education projects which are being developed despite reduced budgets. These include the use of volunteers in language teaching, training for part-time teachers through a self-running staff development program, new course models, and a television program on entrepreneurship. (CT)

The expanded adult education program at Malvern Hills College incorporates many of the Russell Report recommendations. (AG)

The author argues that the traditional defense of liberal adult education has always been inadequate and that, if adult education is to find its proper place among national priorities, then it will need new defenses and new forms of attack. (Author/CH)

Describes a process to help adults in local British churches consider and develop new patterns of Christian education in the context of mutual support. (Author)