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Learners take the slow road

Published on
July 9, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Measures to widen education access have had little effect on the number of participants, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education reported this week. More than 5,000 people took part in its 1999 survey, which found that location, social class, age and the length of initial education were factors in later learning.

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