Drawing on research from different countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the contributors' discuss issues which intersect with gender to impact on education, including structural factors such as class, ethnicity, age, colonisation and migration. Topics include: the impact of colonisation on the gendering of education and lifelong learning: international surveys on men, women and educational participation: gender, masculinities and migrants’ learning experiences: boys-only classes as a response to ‘the problem of underachieving boys’: men’s perspectives on learning to become parents: community learning, gender and public policy: older men’s perspectives on (re-)entering post-compulsory education.