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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 056 266 AC 012 004 TITLE The Year Book of AdultEduc-:_tim, 1971-72- A Directory of Organisations. INSTITUTION National Inst. of Adult EducationcLondon (England of the volume. (Editor/CK) OEZ- -7-062867-3053 BR-6-28 s PUB DATE 71 s " s s vh j NOTE 94p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 DESCRIPTORS Abstracts; *Adult EducationPrograms; Directories; International Organizations;Legislation; *National Organizations; ProfessionalAssociations; *Public Schools; *Universities; *Yearbooks IDENTIFIERS Africa; Asia; Australia;England; Europe; New Zealand; North America;Scotland; South Americ' Wales ABSTRACT This year book of the NationalInstitute of Adult Education (England and Wales) andthe Scottish Institute ofAdult Education lists organizationsconcerned with adult education programs and, in most cases, provides abrief description oUthe programs. rollowing a discussion of the purposesof the National Institute of Adult Education (NIAE), thefollowing member organizations,their addresses, and programs are given:Department of Education and Science; Education in HM Forces;Prison Department: Home Office; Local education authorities;Universities; The Open University; Workers' Educational Association;Educaeional Centres Association; Residential education; and otherorganizations in membership of NINE; Professional associations;Industrial training boards;Broadcasting and television; Educationaljournals; and other relevant organizations. Following this listing,abstracts are given of English legisiation and regulations that arerelated to adu1t education. Adult education in Scotland isthen discussed briefly, and a directory is given of relevantorganizations. Organizations throughout the world with which NIAEhas some measure of contact are given as to names, addresses. Anindex to the directory isprovided. (DB) U S DEPARTMEN I OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONow INATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPIN IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDU- CATION POSITION OR POLICY .13.1.%.: PP-ARIIIIPCOPlouris.";ftwitywiiir...4wrsew.wer, 4144' _1104A s4, What is BAC I E BACIE was founded in 1919 and is registered as an educational charity. It is the only voluntary organisation specialising in arl aspects of commercial and industrial education and training in the United Kingdom, The Aociation's membership includes indus:rial and commercial firms, the nationalised industries, Government_ departments,industrial training boards, local education authorities, universities, technical andcommercial colleges, professional bodies, trade associations and trade unions, as well as numerous members overseas SERVICES TO MEMBERS 1. BACIE Journal issued quarterly. An 5. Occasional Publications, hand- authoritative guide to training practice books, training manuals and reports. and policy. 2. BACIE News published seven times 6. Information Department gives ad- a year. A concise summary of current vice to members on all aspects of events. education and training in commerce and industry; provides library and loan 3. BACIE Bibliography of publications services. in the field of education and training in industry, publishedasa supplement to the News. The only service of its 7. Courses specially designed for educa- kindessential to all who want to keep tion and training officers and others abreast ef what is published in this working in the field of further educa- rapidly growing field. tion. 4. BACIE Training Aids Indexa con- 8. Conferences and Exhibitions, both stantly updated service for all who national and regional, en subjects of need to buy end use audio-visual aids common interest. in the course of their work. An official Buyers'GuideofTheIndustrial Council for Educational and Training 9. Ten Regional Groups and Scottish Technology (ICETT). Branch. Membership details will gladly be supplied on application to the Secretary. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COM MERCIAL AND IN DUSTRIALEDUCATION 16 Park Crescent London W1N 4AP 01436 5351 A directory of owonisutions 2 Year of decision IAE The directory (England and Wales) 7 National Institute of Adult Education 10 Department of Education and Scienr- 11 Education in HM Forces 11 Prison Department: Home Office 1971, National Institute 12 Local education authorities rm of Adult Education 35 Queen Anne Street 25 Universities London w Im OBL 28 The Open University .1 01-580 3155 30 Workers' Educational Association 32 Educational Centres Asso-iation 41 Residential education 46Other organisations in membershipof NIAE 54 P:ofessional associations 56 Industrial training boards 59 Broadcasting and television 64Educational journals 66 Other relevant organisations 74Legislation and regulationsabstracts 79 Adult education in Scotland 86 Overseas contacts 98 Index Price 8p, post free_ Year of decision E. M. Hutchinson lately Secretary, National Institute of A_ Eel.ueatiolt Itcan reasonably be assumedthat during theit no doubt they will learn in their leisure time, but currency nf this year book the report ofthe Russellit is for rnuch more than the purpose of leisure that Committee will become available. Whatever itsthey learn it'. contents, it will precipitate a wide-ranging debate, Sir Fred had also some very clear and positive since it must inevitably challenge many preconcep-things to say about the inter-relations of public and tions and contain proposals requiring governmentalprivate effort that have lost none of their force in action for their implementation. Whether that willthe intervening years. 'From sheer necessity and for be forthcoming remains to be seen. sound reasons of good government, the regulative It may be appropriate, in this year that mat ksthe aclion of public authority will have to be definite, fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Britishconstant and occasionally strong. There can be Institute of Adult Education and the end of twenty- effective checks and balances, a just equilibrium of five years of service by its post-war successors, to thrusts and tensions, only if the executive energies sum up some of the debits andcredits and to see whatof official authority are met by cot i-esponding energies balence of experience there i- to carry forward into of initiative and zeal issuing from the body of society the post-Russell era. itself. For the generating and directing of these What is adult education ?This elementary question latter energies the universities arai voluntary bodies has become steadily more insistent over the lastare to provide the springs and the channels. Ifthey quarter of a century. As envisaged in the Minis'xy'sfail the pattern either collapses or comes to depend pamphlet no. 8, Further Education, issued in 1946, it for all its vitality on official sources. In either case comprised a galaxy of services contributing to the en-freedom is no more. ...Should freedom ever depart largement of mature personality and the strengthen-from among us this is the way it would go, not ing of community responsibility. Presented under thedestroyed by violent frontal attack, but just slipping title of 'Learning for Leisure', the emphasis of theaway from a people not vvi -hing any longer to pay adult education chapter was on the carry-over ofthe price of it.' war-time experience of informal methods and the Asserting the need for reinterpretation, rather than strengthening of neighbourhood communities; andreconstruction, in the reformulation of educational it was to the development of these that the attentiontasks, because of 'the strength of tradition .. and of local education authorities, charged with the the necessity we shafi be under of still drawinf7 heavily preparation of schemes of further education andupon it', Sir Fred saw such reinterpretation'carried provisionof countycolleges,was particularlythrough in the light of all the changed facts and directed. Implicitly, 'adult education' was identifiedforces, social, economic, intellectual, international', with the terms of sub-section (b) of section 41 of theas coming 'very near the heart of the task ofadult 1944 Eeucation Act, i.e. leisure-time occupationeducation as it now faces us. It will affect most in...organised cultural training and recreativedirectly', he continued, 'that select body of students activities % rather than with sub-section (a), i.e.who show both capacity and desire for sustained 'full-time and part-time education for persons overthinking and prolonged study. Let us hope that their compulsory school age'interpreted in the pamphletnumbers will be greatly increased. But in due as more applice :e to forms ofeducation withmeasure, some consciousness of that central purpose economic rather than cultural significance. should animate all that we do among a people still It a as wryly noted at the time that no mentionfree and still possessing vitality. Art and crafts, was made of tutorial classes, theacknowledgedrecreation and community activities, should all highlight of pre-war adult education; and, as reflect its influence.' 14. J. Edwards, writing in the middle 'fifties, re- Assuming the continuance of a tradition of part- marked, there was a similar absence of reference to nership between statutory authorities and inde- 'evening institutes'. Sir Fred Clar,=e, speaking to thependent agencies as essential to the promotion of first conference of the National Foundation foreducational objectives, Sir Fred saw the practical Adult Education, put his finger on the essentialoutcome, in adult education, in the following