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Education accelerates a person's socialization, helps to improve present public and state relations and better specifies functions of every society member, citizen, their group as well as society. Due to this the state and the society develop education systems following economic calculations. Recently the adult education development has been facing new quality and quantity challenges. Thus for instance a demand for education quality grows together with a necessity to increase its supply (in formal and above all informal adult education). One of the most important positive financial circumstances is lately increasing financing of adult education mostly from the EU Structural funds. These and other factors require an adequate education policy and management. Some previous researches showed that one of the most important as well as problematic factors in the adult education development is the quality of adult education organisation in the self-government level. On the other hand, previous researches only indirectly and briefly elucidated elements of adult education organisation in municipalities. The paper aims at analyzing the situation of adult education organisation in municipalities. To collect primary empirical data the quantitative method has been employed. Representatives of education departments from 51 municipalities (out of 60 municipalities) and 48 heads of adult education centres (out of 53) have taken part in a questionnaire based survey. The paper consists of the introduction that reveals topic relevancy, determines the objectivity and sets tasks to achieve it. The first section analyzes the conception and policy of a life long learning as well as its realisation problems. It investigates the conception of the life long learning, overlooks regulating documents of the EU and Lithuania. The second section presents the analysis of data from the recent researches of adult education organisational aspects. It also provides data of the research "The Situation of Adult Education Organisation in Municipalities". The paper ends with conclusions and a list of references. Annexes introduce research questionnaires used.

Education accelerates a person's socialization, helps to improve present public and state relations and better specifies functions of every society member, citizen, their group as well as society. Due to this the state and the society develop education systems following economic calculations. Recently the adult education development has been facing new quality and quantity challenges. Thus for instance a demand for education quality grows together with a necessity to increase its supply (in formal and above all informal adult education). One of the most important positive financial circumstances is lately increasing financing of adult education mostly from the EU Structural funds. These and other factors require an adequate education policy and management. Some previous researches showed that one of the most important as well as problematic factors in the adult education development is the quality of adult education organisation in the self-government level. On the other hand, previous researches only indirectly and briefly elucidated elements of adult education organisation in municipalities. The paper aims at analyzing the situation of adult education organisation in municipalities. To collect primary empirical data the quantitative method has been employed. Representatives of education departments from 51 municipalities (out of 60 municipalities) and 48 heads of adult education centres (out of 53) have taken part in a questionnaire based survey. The paper consists of the introduction that reveals topic relevancy, determines the objectivity and sets tasks to achieve it. The first section analyzes the conception and policy of a life long learning as well as its realisation problems. It investigates the conception of the life long learning, overlooks regulating documents of the EU and Lithuania. The second section presents the analysis of data from the recent researches of adult education organisational aspects. It also provides data of the research "The Situation of Adult Education Organisation in Municipalities". The paper ends with conclusions and a list of references. Annexes introduce research questionnaires used.