Some specifics of adult higher education

Some specifics of adult higher education (by Marina Belonozhko and Esseniya Khitou) in built on the data of a comparative US-Russia 2006 survey among adult university students aimed in particular at finding out specific motivations and major obstacles for continued learning activities of the people involved. While age and financial resources are important indeed, paramount are more personal reasons involving self-reliance, real or unfounded loss of ability to learn, lacunae in basic education etc. Attitude to learning with resulting resolution of the individual to pursue her/his aim is of critical importance. Other findings relate to the character of knowledge obtained, to types of learning process and forms of teaching, to methods employed by the teachers and professors.