Dear Tomasz,

About Brazil:

Perceptions of higher education in Brazil in the first decade of the third millennium

by Martha Abrahão Saad Lucchesi and  Eliana Branco Malanga

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED511290.pdf

Regards,

Vanessa

You might find some answers in the website  of collège de france.

www.college-de-france.fr

There are a lot of good science since 1530.

Good luck !!!

Martha  서

Dear Marta,

Thak you for your answer, but

...I asked about the universities of the third age (adult education institutions for elderly people (!), not about universities. These are two different issues...

Tomasz

Dear Tomasz,

The majority of  audience in the collège de france are the retired people. All  lectures and international  conférences are free. 

Martha  서 

Ok - I'll try to find something there. Thank you once again. Regards,  Tomasz

 205 Universities are competent to award degrees as specified by UGC under Section 22 of the UGC Act with the approval of the statutory councils, wherever required through their main campus. Wherever the approval of the statutory council is not a pre-requisite to start a programme, the Universities are required to maintain the minimum standards regarding academic and physical infrastructure as laid down by the concerned statutory council.

It is also informed that Private Universities cannot affiliate an institution/college. They cannot establish off campus centre(s) beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the concerned State. However, they can establish off-campus centre(s) within the concerned State after their existence of five years and with the prior approval of the University Grants Commission. So far, UGC has not approved any off campus centre(s) of any Private University.

Course(s) under distance mode can be started by the private university only after the prior approval of the UGC-AICTE and DEC joint Committee for which Director, Distance Education Council, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi - 110068 is the coordinator.

http://www.ugc.ac.in/privatuniversity.aspx

http://www.cdv.uniba.sk/index.php?id=2452  the first Third age university in Slovakia. 

http://www.cdv.uniba.sk/index.php?id=2452

https://www.academia.edu/2184236/Universities_of_the_Third_Age_A_Rationale_for_Transformative_Education_in_Later_Life

Dear Tomasz

Sincerely there is no third age universities in my country. By cons there are evening of open universities for people who did not have a bachelor's degree (diploma to go to universities).

Best regards

Dear Tomasz,

The book referenced below is perhaps the best compendium on the subject. I used this book when I was a visiting scholar at Purdue University.

Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-Transition-Universities-Transaction/dp/1560009179

Higher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities (History of Ideas (Transaction Publisher)) Paperback – January 1, 1997

by Willis Rudy (Author), John S. Brubacher (Author)

ISBN-13: 978-1560009177 ISBN-10: 1560009179 Edition: 4th

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Price: $55.95

Dear @Tomash, Serbia has an experience in third age education. "University for The Third Age, is a sub-project of a much bigger ‘’Education of adult people as a social and andragogical problem’’ project of the Institute for Pedagogy and Andragogy within the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, accepted by the European Committee for adult education.Implementation of this sub-project, oriented towards testing of the conceptual and program basis of the education for the aged people, has started in 1989. After 6 months of experimental testing, the University was officially opened in the November of the same year..."

The third link brings fine info on Adult Education in Serbia! After that, the book follows!

http://www.humanas.rs/index.php?lang=en&main=university-for-the-third-age

http://www.iiz-dvv.de/index.php?article_id=1591&clang=1

http://www.infonet-ae.eu/country-overviews/serbia

http://www.isbns.pt/isbn/9788690613328

It is unfortunate that there are no 3rd age educational institutions in my country. When some one becomes elderly,there is the wrong idea that s/he has missed the "university educational train". There was an exception in 1996/1997 when some elderly male & female teachers were allowed to join our university to obtain B.Sc. as a second degree (the first was 2 years diploma after secondary school).  Many scholars avoided teaching them then & I was the only one who accepted teaching them 3 courses. I must admit that the elderly are generally not respected by the young in our country.

Dear Thomasz,

maybe these titles could be of interest (Croatian examples):

Maria Pavkov, Adult education in Croatia - Globalisation, Europeanisation, Modernisation (Saarbruecken: Suedwestdeuscher Verlag fuer Hochschulschriften, 2008)

Anita Klapan and Milan Matijević (eds), Obrazovanje odraslih i cjeloživotno učenje (Adult education and lifelong learning - in Croatian), Rijeka 2005

Only reports are available online, such as http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/INSTITUTES/UIL/confintea/pdf/National_Reports/Europe%20-%20North%20America/Croatia.pdf

Dear Tomasz,

About Brazil:

Perceptions of higher education in Brazil in the first decade of the third millennium

by Martha Abrahão Saad Lucchesi and  Eliana Branco Malanga

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED511290.pdf

Regards,

Vanessa

Dear Dr Tomasz,

Thank you & happy to know your interest & inclination in the education programme .Presently i will not be in a position to assits you immediately however in the line of my earlier programming information ,i shall be glad to appraisal you if interested the the name of educationalist who have their standing status either as a chancellor or dean of the well known universities .

I trust the information will be found in order .

I wish I can help you about universities of the third age in Palestine, but I don't have information about it.

Hope you will find the required information

There is a great problem how to develop a comprehensive system of lifelong education in Serbia."...Adult education is an important part, where the system of adult education and lifelong learning is relevant, qualitative and efficient, open, flexible and available for all, regardless of their socio-economic, physical, intellectual, regional, national, linguistic, ethnic, religious and other characteristics. The implementation of newly adopted Law on Adult Education is the most important challenges, especially in the time of crises and cuts in many areas."

"The Third Age University of Slovenia is a voluntary educational movement, meant for 50+, mostly retired people, but also for elderly workers out of work. It has been established to provide access to culture and education for the elderly and to contribute to changing the social and economic position of the elderly. The Third Age University encompasses at present 35 universities all over the country."

http://www.infonet-ae.eu/country-overviews/serbia

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/socialinnovationeurope/en/directory/organisation/slovenian-third-age-university

Italy is one of the countries where the first Universities had origin and development in the world. Some links:

http://www.academicapparel.com/caps/College-University-History.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Naples_Federico_II

http://www.unipd.it/en/discovering-padova/history-padova

Dear Tomasz, 

This paper aims about the necessary internationalization of the university in the present context, but is in Spanish. 

Ruiz-Corbella, M., & Diestro Fernández, A. (2013). La internacionalización de la educación superior, elemento clave en su modernización. En AA. VV. Conversaciones con un maestro. Madrid, Ediciones Académicas, 657-673. 

(The Higher Education's Internationalization: key element towards its modernization).

Best regards. 

Chapter La internacionalización de la educación superior, elemento c...

Dear Tomasz,

I found some.There are 40 mln.pensioners in RF and 1.075.000 in Tatarstan. I think, it's developted in Tatarstan very well. There are folk universities and on-line.Their device is "Through learning to improving quality of life" It's innovation for RF.The course is from 1 to 3 months. In Tatarstanhttp://www.pfrrt.ru/union_retirees/universitet-tretego-vozrasta/ 

The works:Панина Т.С,Павельева Н.В.Использование ИКТ в непрерывном образовании людей третьего возраста http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ispolzovanie-informatsionno-kommunikatsionnyh-tehnologiy-v-nepreryvnom-obuchenii-lyudey-tretiego-vozrasta

Кошарная Г.Б., Шанина Е.В. Особенности обучения пожилых людейhttp://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/osobennosti-obucheniya-pozhilyh-lyudey 

Dear Irina,

thank you,

regards,

t.