The Vital Message: The University of Cambridge and Adult Learning since 1945 – Prof Mark Freeman

Speaker: Prof Mark Freeman

In the 1990s some 11,000 students were enrolled on courses run by the University of Cambridge’s Board of Extra-Mural Studies – around the same as the total undergraduate population of the university. They were participating in a tradition of adult learning at Cambridge that went back to the first “university extension” lectures in 1873 and flourished through the twentieth century. The Vital Message, commissioned for the 150th anniversary of this aspect of Cambridge life, focuses in particular on the development and decline of the large programme of non-vocational courses for adults in the East Anglia region.

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