Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Established	1850
Director	Jonathan Michie
Academic staff	90
Students	c. 15,000 enrollees per year
Location	Oxford , England
Affiliations	University of Oxford
Website	www.conted.ox.ac.uk

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) is a department within the University of Oxford that caters mainly for part-time and mature students. It is located at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford, England.

Some 15,000 students comprise the Department, of which roughly 5,000 study for an Oxford University award or credit-bearing course. Other types of course offered by the Department include online courses, short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend courses and summer schools.

The University of Oxford was one of the founders, in the late 19th century, of the so-called 'extension' movement, wherein Universities began to offer educational opportunities to adult learners outside of their traditional student base. The 19th Century saw an awakening social awareness to the needs of working-class people generally, and Oxford University signalled an educational responsibility to the general community by sending lecturers into towns and cities across Victorian England, bringing university culture to a diverse adult audience. The first of the early "Oxford Extension Lectures" was delivered in 1878, and by 1893 Oxford University Extension Centres were bringing adult education to much of England, plus a few cities in Wales.

In 1927, the University purchased Rewley House on Wellington Square in Oxford as the permanent base of what was then known as the "University of Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies", and which later was renamed as the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. During the 1990s, Kellogg College was co-located here.

External links

• Department for Continuing Education website
• Continuing Professional Development — Oxford's part-time professional development provision includes postgraduate courses leading to Certificate, Diploma, MSc and DPhil awards in a range of subjects.
• Online Courses
• Summer School for Adults — providing information about the University of Oxford's Summer School programme run by the Department for Continuing Education.
• Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) — undertake research and consultancy on e-learning and technical projects, and develop learning solutions.