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To investigate the extent of present provision of pre-retirement courses in England and Wales and to provide information upon which future policy for a more integrated scheme of national provision could be considered
Main Topics:
Variables Educational Establishments Provision made for pre-retirement education, plans to provide such education before 31st December 1981, categories of provision (e.g. courses for general public, full-time staff of own organisation, etc.), policy on categories of provision, details of most recently completed course, including length, number invited to attend, number actually attending, course content and objectives; whether: residential, attended by intended partners in retirement, participants involved in design, fee charged, course leader in attendance, outside speakers engaged. Details of staff involved: whether specialists in pre-retirement education, number of such staff, working hours spent in 1979 on pre-retirement ecucation duties. Whether organisation is a member of a pre-retirement association. Occupational establishments Size of organisation, percentage of male and female employers over fifty years of age, existence of policy on pre-retirement education, details of financing, whether employers informed personally of existance of courses.
Educational sectorEach local authority in England and Wales was asked to list those establishments where pre-retirement education was, or could be provided. Questionnaires were sent to these and to all recognised adult education institutions and organisations outside the local authority sector; to university extra-mural departments, to polytechnics and to the Workers Educational Association and to the residential colleges.Occupational sectorA random sample of the registered companies in England and Wales was made from the International Publishing Corporation's KOMPASS file. Nationalised industries, national and local government services, the churches, trades unions and media were separately sampled, as was the distributive trades grouping from its own trades directory.
Postal survey
