Adult Learners’ Week has successfully engaged with hundreds of thousands of people over the last seventeen years. Since 1992 the campaign has provided the opportunity to highlight that learning is not only good for individual health, self-esteem and employability, but also that it transforms lives.
Adult Learners’ Week encourages adults in all their diversity to give learning a go, whether for pleasure, to catch up on skills missed out at school or job progression.
2009 will celebrate the eighteenth year of Adult Learners’ Week, with events and activities taking place from 9th to 15th May 2009. NIACE (the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education), who coordinate the campaign, are hosting a Adult Learners’ Week Roadshow to give local communities the chance to see what it is all about and to encourage wider participation and more partnership activity.
There are only 50 FREE places available at each half-day roadshow event.
Where and when?
- Monday 20 October 2008 - Birmingham Airport, Birmingham
- Wednesday 29 October 2008 - Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
- Wednesday 5 November 2008 - RAF Museum, Shropshire
- Tuesday 11 November 2008 - Norwich
- Thursday 13 November 2008 - Local Solutions, Liverpool
- Friday 14 November 2008 - Government Office North East, Newcastle
- Wednesday 19 November 2008 - Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living, Leicester
- Thursday 20 November 2008 - The Forest Centre, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire
- Wednesday 26 November 2008 - Thurrock
- Thursday 27 November 2008 - Denbies Vineyard, Surrey
- Monday 1 December 2008 - Learning South West, Taunton
- Friday 12 December 2008 - London
What can I expect to get out of the day?
- Clarification of what Adult Learners’ Week can do for your organisation
- Explore what information and promotional material is available to you to support the success of any event, and who in your region can offer you more information
- Time to have a greater input into next year’s campaign
- A demonstration of how to make the media work for you
- Some tips on where and how to secure sponsorship and funding to support your activities
- A forum to network with delegates from across all sectors from your region.
Adult Learners’ Week is an opportunity for you to make a difference by inspiring others to give learning a go. Whether you’re an employer, a provider of learning or a potential partner, there are many benefits to getting involved.
Application conditions
These are FREE events for delegates based in England, but please note that NIACE is unable to reimburse travel expenses. Places are strictly limited to attendance at only one event and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
To register and secure a place at one of the events, please apply online through the website, or complete the booking form and fax it to Silvia Errington at NIACE on 0116 223 0050, or email the form to silvia.errington@niace.org.uk no later than five working days before each event.
A confirmation email will be sent to you by NIACE once the booking form has been processed. Joining instructions will be emailed or posted to you in the week before the event date.
Click here to go to the NIACE website.