Scotland's Adult Education: the Challenge of Change (known as the Alexander Report, 1975, after its chair Professor Keenneth Alexander) brought youth work and adult education together for the first time into a new Community Education service. It picked up ideas about youth work from the earlier England and Wales Albemarle Report and re-energised the adult education movement in Scotland. Following its publication, most authorities in Scotland restructured their youth and community and adult education services into community education services.

Sources

• Scottish Education Department (1975) Adult Education: the challenge of change. Report by a Committee of Inquiry (the Alexander Report). Edinburgh: HMSO.
• Ministry of Education (1960) The Youth Service in England and Wales (the Albemarle Report) London, HMSO.
• Sercombe, H., Sweeney, J., Milburn, T., Liddell, M., McLeod, R. and Denning, P. (2014) Scottish Youth Work: same but different, Glasgow. See http://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/1017981/8437152/Scotland.pdf/42e52095-1621-4a25-b84d-7b1307d03b81
• Crowther, J., Martin, I. and Shaw, M. (eds.) (1999) Popular Education and Social Movements in Scotland Today, Leicester: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education.