Good Practice

The Women’s Education Committee (WEC) offers an award for good practice in Women’s Education at the Biennial Conference.

The Margaret James Award for Best Practice in Women’s Education is offered to District groups or projects which can demonstrate that they have been innovative, widened participation by reaching out to marginalised groups, and promoted women’s learning opportunities as a positive measure.

The award, which gives a cash prize to the winning group, is named in memory of Margaret James, a tutor and voluntary member in the 1930s and 40s, who made a generous bequest to the WEA on her death to be used for the purposes of promoting women’s education.

The Women’s Education Committee also offers financial support to Districts each year through the WEC Development Fund.

This provides support to informal outreach and development work undertaken with women by Districts as a first step towards developing educational opportunities.

The projects and groups involved in the Margaret James Award and the WEC development funded work, form the basis of occasional publications which seek to share good practice and record the best of the work achieved in women’s education by the WEA.

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