University of Cambridge
Board of Continuing Education
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
- The Cambridge Guide to Lifelong Learning. This
guide was financed by contributions from Cambridgeshire Careers Guidance
Ltd, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Regional College, CambsTEC,
Chesterton Community College, Hills Road Sixth Form College, University
of Cambridge, the University of the Third Age in Cambridge and the
Workers' Educational Association (Eastern District).
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
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.
- The Public Courses 1996-1997 booklet
- The Cambridge City Programme 1996-1997
- Cambridge Certificates and Diplomas for the Public 1996-1997
- Madingley Hall Residential Courses 1996-1997
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
Primarily designed to provide continuing education for those who work
within the English Legal system, this programme's main activities include:
- Residential courses for lay magistrates in England and Wales
- Continuing Professional Development for the legal profession, including in-house
training for individual firms of solicitors or consortia
- The provision of distance-learning packages in law for magistrates, notaries and law students
- An International Summer school in English Legal Methods for lawyers and law students whose legal
systems are not based on English Common Law
- Revision courses for external students of the University of London's LLB
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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1996-1997 (updated February 1997)