ADULT TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN ENGLAND (XIX – BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY)

The process of adult technical education development in nineteenth – early twentieth England is shown. Three main stages of its historical-pedagogical development are depicted – beginning with institutions founded by some charity and voluntarist organizations' and private individuals' philanthropic activities to overcome elementary technical illiteracy to the development of government technical institutions of various levels of education. The evolution of this process has been analyzed from thriving the idea of adult technical education to this educational phenomenon has become taking shape as an object of government regulations under local educational authorities after Technical Instruction Act 1889 was adopted, creating the basis for systematic development through local state initiative.