Abstract
This article explores the restructuring of a major adult education provider in a New Zealand university and its impact across the selected domains of the role of adult and continuing education in the institution, curriculum development, teaching and learning in adult education, and relationships of adult educators with communities. The author provides a broader context for understanding the changes (societal imperatives, university developments in New Zealand, perspectives of adult and continuing education in universities) and traces the rationale and events related to two reviews of this provider in the last 7 years. It is argued that the consequences of the largely imposed changes were foreseeable and primarily negative for the wider field of adult education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The road of New Right ideology has been travelled too far and the effects are virtually irreversible.
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