From childhood to adult to lifelong By facebooker_1648291831881172 1870 In the United Kigdom compulsory schooling began. 1875 School education grew by virtue of its compulsory nature and education was seen as preparing children for adulthood 1919 The Ministry of Reconstruction Report was made in Britain to emphasize the place of adult education 1929 Yeaxlee wrote about lifelong education even when adult education waqs not really firmly established in the United Kingdom 1944 An Education Act had placed various responsibilities on local Education Authorities to ensure their provision of further educaton 1960 An idea became popular: that people should have an education entitlement after they left school 1965 Adult education had become accepted in the United Kingdom 1973 The Organization for Emonomic Cooperation and Development created a strategy for lifelong education 1975 UNESCO adopted the idea of lifelong education 1980 Education continued after schooling 1989 Continued education was a simple moves to lifelong education 1995 It was accepted that education is a lifelong process