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The Programmes

The Board of Continuing Education is one of the principal agencies through which the outside world has access to the accumulated knowledge, teaching skills and values of the University. The main components of the Board's present programme are the following:

Background

For more than a hundred years Cambridge University has provided vocational orientated education and courses of study in the liberal arts in a variety of locations for adults from the local, regional and international community.

In 1873, at the instigation of James Stuart, Professor of engineering and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge became the first university in England to offer regular lectures to adult members of the general public who were neither resident in the university nor required to meet the academic conditions for matriculation. Oxford followed suit in 1878, and for many years the two universities sent lecturers out by train on long circuits of the country until other universities took over responsibility for their surrounding areas. The impetus to found one or two of the provincial universities (for example Liverpool) grew in the first instance from extension lecture centre supported by Cambridge and Oxford. Extra-mural Studies were originally the responsibility of the University's Local Examinations Syndicate: the independent Board was set up, under the direct supervision of the Council of the Senate in 1924. The Board had its headquarters in Cambridge until 1974 when it was given full-time use of Madingley Hall, a sixteenth century country house just outside the city, which the University had bought in 1947 and converted to be a residence for graduate students. In 1991 the Board was redesignated the Board of Continuing Education and given wider responsibilities for the review, organisation and co-ordination of the University's activities in the field of Continuing Education.

Publications


International Summer Programmes

These programmes, which attract students of all ages from all over the world, extend the Board's provision of summer courses to those from outside Britain. The course lists for 1997 are provided here, and will be expanded with course details when they are available, near the beginning of 1997.

Provision includes

For further information please contact Rita I'Ons, International Division, University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley, Cambridge CB3 8AQ

Tel +44 1954 210636
Fax +44 1954 210677
e-mail: rdi1000@cus.cam.ac.uk


The Programme for the Public

This programme, designed for members of the general public, includes:

Leaflets

Details of the Programme for the Public courses listed on this server may be obtained in a series of leaflets. Each leaflet includes an application form. Leaflets may be available from your Library, or copies can be obtained from the address below.

Details of the Programme for the Public courses listed above may be obtained from

Director of Studies
Public Courses
University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education
Madingley Hall
Madingley,
Cambridge CB3 8AQ

Tel 01954 210636
Fax 01954 210677


The Legal Studies Programme

Primarily designed to provide continuing education for those who work within the English Legal system, this programme's main activities include: For further information please contact

Philip Brown
Director of Legal Studies
University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education
Madingley Hall
Madingley,
Cambridge CB3 8AQ

Tel +44 1954 210636
Fax +44 1954 210677


Further Information

Further information about the University's Continuing Education programme as a whole is available from:

Director of Continuing Education
University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education
Madingley Hall
Madingley,
Cambridge CB3 8AQ

Tel 01954 210636
Fax 01954 210677

Unfortunately, there is no electronic mail contact at present.


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