Lifelong learning: Opportunity or compulsion?

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-263

  Tight, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult education; Continuing and higher education; Lifelong education; Lifelong learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032329205     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8527.00082     Document Type: Article

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