Department of Adult and Continuing Education

Reference
- GB 248 GUA ACE
Dates of Creation
- 1926-1996
Name of Creator
- Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Glasgow
Language of Material
- English.
Physical Description
- 2.12 metres

Scope and Content

Minutes, agendas and papers of University of Glasgow committees concerned with adult and continuing education 1927-1983
Annual accounts of University of Glasgow committees concerned with adult and continuing education 1927-1959
Annual reports of University of Glasgow committees concerned with adult and continuing education 1926-1994
Papers relating to the funding of adult education classes run by the University of Glasgow and other bodies 1938-1979
Minutes, agendas, papers and correspondence of other bodies concerned with adult and continuing education 1927-1990
Local Authority Adult Education Schemes 1946-1981
Printed material relating to adult education courses in the West of Scotland run by the University of Glasgow and other bodies 1962-1996
Special reports and research undertaken by University of Glasgow bodies concerned with Adult and continuing education 1960-1983
Press cuttings 1947-1950

Administrative / Biographical History

The Department of Adult and Continuing Education had its origins in the University of Glasgow Extra-Mural Education Committee. This was founded in May 1924 on the recommendation of the Joint Committee of the Court and Senate on Adult Education and first met in October of that year under the convenorship of Hector Hetherington , then Professor of Moral Philosophy. Its objectives were to "further consider and report to the University how [it] can best promote the cause of Adult Education in Glasgow and the West of Scotland", "provide more systematic and advanced types of courses of study" and to oversee "the general development of adult education in the West of Scotland". The second function was fulfilled by co-operation with bodies like the Central Committee for Adult Education in HM Forces (founded 1939 and wound up in 1960), the Scottish Institute of Adult Education (founded 1949) and the West of Scotland Joint Committee on Adult Education (founded 1927 and wound up in 1967). Members of the University of Glasgow Extra-Mural Education Committee sat on these other committees. As well as co-operating with these bodies, the University of Glasgow Extra-Mural Education Committee also entered into agency schemes with the West of Scotland Local Education Authorities, whereby the University provided staff to run courses whose expenses were paid by the Local Education Authorities. Some of these agency agreements survived the local government changes of the 1970s. In 1975, the University of Glasgow Extra-Mural Education Committee became the University of Glasgow Extension Studies (Joint) Committee and in 1977, the name was again changed, this time to the University of Glasgow Committee on Adult and Continuing Education. This committee was a merger of the Extension Studies (Joint) Committee and the Senate Committee on Adult Education. This committee continued to fulfil its original objectives as well as being responsible for the running of the University Department of Adult and Continuing Education. On the University's merger with St Andrews College on 1 April 1999, the Department became part of the newly created Faculty of Education.