Adults in Higher Education

Contents: Robin Mark: Increasing Adult Participation in Higher Education - Anne-Marie André/Geneviève Cochez: Adults in Belgian Higher Education - Rossica Betcheva: Adults in Bulgarian Higher Education - Miloslava Chovancová/Andras Chernel: Adults in Czech Higher Education - Aune Valk: Adults in Estonian Higher Education - Jyri Manninen/Tina Engblom: Adults in Finnish Higher Education - Guy Arquembourg/Arnaud Haeringer: Adults in French Higher Education - Martin Beyersdorf: Adults in German Higher Education - Athina Sipitanou: Adults in Greek Higher Education - Anikó Kálmán: Adults in Hungarian Higher Education - Patricia-Anne Moore: Adults in Irish Higher Education - Margrit Wetter: Adults in Italian Higher Education - Ineta Kristovska: Adults in Latvian Higher Education - Daiva Dumciuvien /Marius Mikul nas/Danguol Rutkauskien : Adults in Lithuanian Higher Education - Dimtcho Tourdanov: Adults in Polish Higher Education - Nilza Costa/Pedro Mantas/Luís Marques: Adults in Portuguese Higher Education - Ion Olteanu/Valentin Oprea: Adults in Romanian Higher Education - Ján Porvazník/Marína Hucková: Adults in Slovakian Higher Education - Margerita Zagmajster: Adults in Slovenian Higher Education - Ebba Ossiannilsson: Adults in Swedish Higher Education - Michael Osborne: Adults in British Higher Education - Mireille Pouget: New Opportunities and Challenges - Edward Thomas: European Higher Education for Adults, an Overview.

The Editors: Robin Mark is a Senior Lecturer and is the Assistant Director of Lifelong Learning at the Queen's University of Belfast. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Adult Education from the University of Roskilde in Denmark in 2001. He is the co-ordinator of the EU-funded ALPINE project on 'Increasing Adult Education in European Universities' and has more than sixteen years experience working in the area of adult access to universities in the UK.
Mireille Pouget is the Development Officer for widening access at the University of Stirling, with many years of experience in teaching adults returning to education. She received her Master of Education from the University of Stirling in 2001. She is currently working on the Grundtvig project 'Valuing Learning from Experience'.
Edward Thomas is an Emeritus Professor in the University of Bristol. He is a founder member of the European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) and was its Secretary General, 1991-2000. He is the joint-co-ordinator of the ALPINE Working Group on the Survey of European adult higher education that has produced the present book.

"...the book gives an excellent overview of the diversity in Europe in dealing with research results and their implementation." (Ina Grieb, Studies in the Education of Adults)