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Part 1 Retrospective: the 1980s - change, contradiction, confusion andtheir legacy. Part 2 Perspective - views from interested parties:universities - responsibility and motivation; the exploding community?;the university idea and the smashing of the academic atom; thepolytechnics; other colleges; further education - navigating the 1990s;policy for vocational education and training; adult education andEuropean communities; enabling learning - raising the profile of staffdevelopment; competition, collaboration, communities - the involvementof local education authorities in post-compulsory education. Part 3Prospective - views on key issues: growth, outreach, openness; thesearch for quality; technological utopias in post-compulsory education;restructuring the resourcing; under new management?; post-compulsoryeducation and the international community.