How Oxford pioneered working-class education

The Department for Continuing Education is well know locally for the many extramural classes it runs in Oxford and the surrounding area, but what is perhaps less well known is that the University, in the early years of the 20th century, led the movement to establish adult and working-class education.An article on the history of the Department's work with the Workers' Education Association (WEA) over the past 100 years was published in the January 2009 issue (p.10) of Blueprint, the University's staff magazine