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The annual conference of the Universities Association for Continuing Education (UAce) has become a key event for the discussion of policy and the dissemination of new work among workers in adult continuing higher education. Lifelong learning, equity and inclusion, the generic theme of the conference, allowed conference delegates to explore aspects of inclusion for groups involved with community based and continuing vocational education, work or home based students, those concerned with urban and rural issues and those concerned with students having individual needs. The content of the papers, abstracts and keynote speeches represents the state of the art in thinking about lifelong learning and its relation to the 21st century social agenda. Papers indexed are: A new way of learning, the UfI network: developing the University for Industry concept / Anne Wright; The challenge of inclusion to higher education institutions / Roderick Floud; Lifelong learning in the mainstream: issues of access and equity / Graeme John Davies; The contribution of lifelong learning to an equitable and inclusive society / John Daniel; The transition experience of disabled students into higher education / Len Spriggs; 'Unlocking potential': accreditation for socially excluded young people / Pat Davies and Julia Carter; The experience of older learners and the influence of context / Tilda Gaskell; Is your university supporting lifelong learning for its own staff? / Malcolm Sunderland and Daniel Vulliamy; Work based learning and access to higher education / Carol Costley; Credit and credibility: personal development plans for lifelong learning / Lyn Brennan and Alison Hirst; The role of learner parents in widening participation / Cal Weatherald and Diane Burns; Learning strategies: case studies of local community learning initiatives / Helen Godfrey and Sue Gruellich; The classroom as community: dynamics of race and gender / Jane Hoy and Rajni Kumrai; Issues in the provision of education for inner city groups, especially community development groups / Brid Connolly; Action learning for local development: a community based project in Coventry / Jane Watts; A kind of higher education for adult learners in community settings / Ann-Marie Houghton and Julie Preece; Inclusive partnerships for cultural diversity and development / Patricia Whaley and Asma Shaffi; Creating partnerships for pathways: how do we ensure inclusive partnership between FE and HE? / Lydia Merryl; Lifelong learning: practitioners' engagement with change / Diane Burns; Social inclusion and adult learning / John Field; Mainstreaming LAE: has it widened participation? / Katherine Leni Oglesby, Faith Butt and Ian Ground; European universities: how accessible are they for adults? / Barbara Merrill and Tom Collins; Deconstructing outreach policy: a critical examination of the discourses underlying government policy / Sue Oosthuizen and Marie Askham; Capacity building through new technology / Rob Harrison and Angie Piesold.