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Everyone’s a winner

Adult Education Week is a perfect showcase for the transformative power of education later in life and often against the odds, says Christine Bullock Apt awards is delighted to be sponsoring the FE Week supplement in celebration of Adult Learners’ Week. Adult learning is at the heart of what we do and this week is […]

We must keep the doors open for all adult learners

Policymakers need to see adult education and lifelong learning beyond the silo of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, particularly in these straitened times, says Gordon Marsden Adult Learners’ Week is a great opportunity to showcase the tremendous impact lifelong learning has on communities. My two decades as an Open University and Workers’ Educational […]

Everyone should have a chance to learn

Matthew Hancock celebrates Adult Learners’ Week. It is a chance, he says, for people to seek out opportunities they might never have considered before All of us in the further education and skills sector have a part to play to ensure that everyone in this country, regardless of their background, can be trained in the […]

‘At last things are looking up for me’

A prizewinning student tells Rebecca Cooney how an adult education college is helping her to achieve her dream A mum-of-two who fled political unrest in Eritrea and studied English to try to fulfil her lifelong ambition to become a nurse has earned the Building Life Skills Through ESOL prize as part of Adult Learners’ Week. […]

It’s the taking part that counts

Adult Learners’ Week rightly celebrates its award winners. But what of the future? With a spending review looming in June, David Hughes wonders what the prospects are for adults who catch the learning bug now The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education strives for a society in which all adults have opportunities to learn throughout […]

Learning to juggle home and work

A local college is helping five young Bolton mums to balance home life and career development. Bethany Sutton, 18, Samantha Norris and Natalie Davies, both 19, and Amy Mason and Chelsea Stringfellow, both 20, are all enrolled on courses with Bury College. Their studies include work at Bolton’s Rosehill Nursery — where their children are […]

Students make their mark in Bracknell

Art students from Bracknell & Wokingham College have made the drawings of local primary schoolchildren into a permanent mural on a town underpass. Students painted the mural, designed by children from Wooden Hill Infant School, after their original drawing, printed on to a plastic coating material stuck to the underpass, began to peel off. College […]

Double helpings for trainee chef

A trainee chef studying at Salford City College’s Walkden Sixth Form Centre has been offered jobs at two high profile restaurants. Stuart Fraser has been ofafered posts at London restaurant Hix and at Sam’s Chop House in Manchester. The 18-year-old level three hospitality and culinary arts student, from Lower Broughton, impressed chef Mark Hix during […]

‘Love and loss’ film wins award

The tale of a boy who jumps in and out of a newspaper before dying helped three media students win best animation at the Staffordshire Film Festival. Solihull College 18-year-olds Laura-Jane Gregory, Rhiannon Lloyd and Jessie Doyle developed the idea from the opening credits of Russell Howard’s Good News television programme. Their two-minute film, One […]