Continuing education and the community college
Although their numbers have increased greatly in the USA in recent years, community colleges continue to be beset by a number of problems which limit their growth and effectiveness. They attempt to meet all needs of all segments of the community and are cheaper than institutions such as universities, but still attract only a small proportion of possible users and tend to be inefficient because of overlap of services, poor organization, and so on. They have low prestige, offer low staff salaries and few opportunities for staff development such as in-service training, and are poorly funded, as a result of concentration of financing of school level education. Community colleges need to develop clear objectives and identify potential students. They need appropriate physical plant, trained teaching staff, and programmes to 'sell' themselves to the communities they serve. In the future, lifelong learning will be accepted as the norm, while delivery of education could be based on a universal hookup to a space satellite containing all human knowledge
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| Format: | book biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Nelson-Hall
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| Subjects: | Lifelong learning, Adult education, Building design, Educational finance, Educational objectives, Educational personnel, |
| Online Access: | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000166569 |
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