Helping to Develop a Provincial Continuing & Community Education Policy. A Paper Inviting Public Response.

Prepared by a group of British Columbia adult educators involved in the administration and delivery of programs, this paper is intended to stimulate thinking concerning adult education policy by soliciting representative input from individuals and community groups. After a brief introduction, the role of each public educational institution, in relation to current adult education, is described. These institutions include school boards, community colleges, vocational schools, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and public universities. Current concerns related to adult education practices are also described and include low priority, inadequate funding, limited co-ordination, lack of assessment, unequal access, inadequate program development, and inadequate counseling. The paper concludes with six basic issues which may be of special interest to educators and citizens in general. (SH)