- More opportunities for part-time (including evening) study to degree level.
(4) Increased provision for paid educational leave for all classes of worker.
(5) Alternatively to (4), grant-aid on the same basis as for other classes of student.
These proposals obviously raise the problem of appropriate forms of assessment and certification for adult education courses. They should be based on forms appropriate to work with adult students, including continuous assessment, project work etc. Some form of certification is no doubt inevitable if students are to proceed to more advanced studies acquiring cumulative credits as they go.
All this would be required to institute a flexible system of continued education in which students should be able to proceed as appropriate from part-time to full-time courses, transferring where desirable from one sector of the educational system to another, and from internal to external courses as required.
To achieve equality of opportunity on these lines, however, would require radical re-structuring of the whole of that system, from nursery education to the universities. It would be unlikely to be accomplished without extensive social and political changes in society as a whole. It requires a massive application of the principle of "positive discrimination" to enable a significant proportion of the socially and educationally disadvantaged to secure access to higher education.