Reflecting a common objective of ensuring quality Education for All, this book is a joint initiative of UNESCO and COL and jointly published. Lifelong Learning in Distance Higher Education brings together a diverse group of experts from many countries. The book provides a clear picture of the challenges, problems and potential of distance higher education at its current stage of development. It also describes successful practices for planning and implementing distance higher education and offers numerous practical insights. Aimed at planners, policy makers and other stakeholders, the book is intended to be a practical tool for capacity building and decision making. Following a Foreword (Koichiro Matsuura) and Preface (Sir John Daniel), Contributor information, and Prologue (Badri N. Koul), the book includes twelve chapters: (1) Introduction (Christopher McIntosh); (2) Lifelong Learning for Equity and Social Cohesion: A New Challenge for Higher Education (Suzy Halimi); (3) The Impact of ICT on Lifelong Learning (Mary Thorpe); (4) Approaches to Funding (Greville Rumble and Fredric M. Litto); (5) Lifelong learning in the African context: A practical example from Senegal (Olivier Sagna); (6) The Chinese Approach (Ding Xingfu, Gu Xiaoqing and Zhu Zhiting); (7) Quality Assurance Survey of Mega Universities (Insung Jung); (8) The Higher Education Open and Distance Learning Knowledge Base (Zeynep Varoglu); (9) The Finnish Virtual University and Finland's Path to a Learning Society (Marja Kylama); (10) Promoting Cross-Border Recognition and Mobility Developments in the Netherlands (Jindra Divis, Astrid Scholten and Anne Marie Mak); (11) Charting the Evolution of Lifelong Learning and Distance Higher Education: The Role of Research (Tony Bates); and (12) Conclusion (Christopher McIntosh.) (Chapters are noted and referenced individually. Contains 2 figures and 7 tables.) [This book was "co-published with The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Zeynep Varoglu provided editorial coordination for this monograph.]