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Institute of Adult and Continuing Education to Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
In an earlier article I traced the 1983 formation of the Institute of Adult and Continuing Education which essentially was an outgrowth of the Department of Extra Mural Studies within the Former Faculty of Education, University of Guyana. Attention is now focused on the development of the Institute of Adult and Continuing Education into the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education.
In 1985 through the auspices of the Public Service Ministry and the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, the Institute of Adult and Continuing Education was able to send a staff member on a ten-week intensive distance education training course in Australia. In the very year an investigative study of the national facilities for the delivery and receipt of audio programmes conducted by visiting consultant, Mr. Ed Hattar, suggested that there was need to find an alternative medium for the delivering of core materials.
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