How can the concept of lifelong learning be refreshed and expanded to provide an effective focus for higher education development at the start of the twenty-first century? What kinds of changes in the composition, experience and motivation of the student population require what kinds of response from institutions and others in support of future learning requirements? Which "lifewide" connections between higher education and other areas of social and economic life most affect the purposes and performance of global higher education?

Table of Contents

LIST OF CONTENTS Editors' Introduction Section I: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning 1.Euro student 2000: comparisons with the United Kingdom Brian Ramsden 2.Getting Real: the evidence on access and achievement? John Field 3.Disabled students in higher education: legislation, teaching, learning and assessment. Sheila Riddell, Teresa Tinklin and Alastair Wilson 4.Rurality and higher education: a conceptual analysis Neil Moreland, Joyce Chamberlain and Kepa Artaraz Section II: Higher Education and Lifewide Learning 5.Student feedback, learning and development Dai Hounsell 6.Reconstructing students as consumers: power and assimilation? Louise Morley 7.Self-directed learning on-line Philip Candy 8.Access to what? Opportunities in education and employment John Brennan and Tarla Shah Section III: Perspectives 9. The global challenge 10.Higher education and civil society 11.The university and life-chances David Watson 12.Learning through life - higher education and the lifecourse of individuals Andrew Pollard Bibliography Index

Author Biography

Maria Slowey is Professor and Director of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow. Her research is in the areas of adult and higher education and lifelong learning. She plays an active national role including membership of the Cubie Committee on the Student Finance,SHEFC and HEFCE Committees, and the ESRC Research Priorities Board. At an international level she has acted as consultant to OECD, the EC, the Council of Europe, and the ETF. David Watson has been Vice Chancellor of the University of Brighton since 1990 where he is also Professor of the History of Ideas. He has contributed widely to developments in UK higher education, as a member of the CNAA, PCFC, HEFCE and the Dearing Committee of Inquiry. His academic interests are in the history of American ideas and in higher education policy, on which he has published extensively.