Loud cadet at uni maligned community college's work (5,9)
I believe the answer is:
adult education
'community college's work' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'loud cadet at uni maligned' is the wordplay.
'maligned' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'loud'+'cadet'+'at'+'uni'='loudcadetatuni'
'loudcadetatuni' is an anagram of 'ADULT EDUCATION'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for adult education that I've seen is " training".)