Gareth Elwyn Jones is Emeritus Professor of Education in the University of Wales and is based in Swansea's Department of Education. He is a former head of the Department of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Gordon Roderick is a former Professor of Continuing Education and Director of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Sheffield and Professor of Adult Education at the University of Wales Swansea.

This book is a very worthy and impressive achievement. It will be many years before Welsh education again receives such full and lucid treatment. It deserves a readership far beyond Wales because it raises and addresses issues which are of global concern at the present time.'