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Adult higher education in the Netherlands: National policy and local practice

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Policy papers published by the Ministry of Education and Science in the Netherlands show that the government is strongly interested in the concept of recurrent education. One possible way of implementing this idea is through university level evening programs. In the Social Science Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam the evening program in sociology (which was established through the institution's own initiative) has recently taken on an institutionalized character. This article reports the results of research on the first year's experience of the day and evening students who began their studies in 1974. Attention is devoted to evening student recruitment, motives to take up university study and sociology in particular, minimum conditions within the institution's infrastructure, the curriculum and output. University evening education in general is also discussed and some policy conclusions are formulated regarding the realization of university evening education in the Netherlands.

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  1. Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Geert W. M. Stevens, Elisabeth G. M. Nuyten-Edelbroek & Jos L. Van Emmerik

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Stevens, G.W.M., Nuyten-Edelbroek, E.G.M. & Van Emmerik, J.L. Adult higher education in the Netherlands: National policy and local practice. High Educ 8, 279–297 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137214

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