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29 June 2011
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South Grove Primary School, in Walthamstow, offers a range of learning opportunities to improve the...
The WEA has published new research into the impact of its courses as part of Adult Learners' Week 2013.
The...
This year's Levellers Day celebration, entitled Learning the Lessons of History, was held on Saturday...
Around 300 WEA members, students, tutors and volunteers, gathered at University College London last...
WEA Regional Education Manager, Jol Miskin, successfully competed a half marathon to raise money for...
The WEA's Jol Miskin, Regional Education Manager in Yorkshire and Humber, is set to take part in a sponsored...
“I had stopped learning, I had no job – but now I’ve found my place.”
Afshan...
The free event takes place on Saturday 18 May 2013 from 10.00 – 16.00 at Warwick Hall Burford,...
listenupnorth.com is very pleased & privileged to announce a new NATIONAL writing competition, part...
100 miles, 6 counties, 1 day - 1 July 2013
Reaching the ripe old age of 100 is no mean feat for any...
Learners at the Cutteslowe Community Centre in North Oxford have just completed...
The WEA’s Omega Centre in Portsmouth plays host to a creative writing weekend over the 18th and...
Birmingham based WEA health project, Community Learning for Healthy Living, has been invited for...
On Saturday 13th April 2013 the life and achievements of the Trinidadian journalist and essayist, Cyril...
Shirley, a learner from the first YMCA Learning for Health group in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,...
The WEA has a new branch in Lincoln in response to calls from enthusiastic learners.
The team canvassed...
A learner from Leicester's 101 Branch, Paul Ford, has been making great progress in his computer course.
Paul...
WEA East Midlands' film competition, Real to Reel, is giving the region's budding Danny Boyles the...
The widely acclaimed The Pitmen Painters has just began a six-month tour of the UK, starting...
The sixth annual National Apprenticeship Week celebrates apprentices and the benefit for individuals,...
WEA, the UK’s largest charitable provider of adult education, has expressed concern at the latest...
Robert Goodwill MP, Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury and MP for Scarborough and Whitby, visited...
The UK’s largest charitable provider of adult education, the WEA, has welcomed the publication...
Fauja Singh, WEA Tandrusti’s 101-year-old Patron and the world's oldest marathon runner,...
WEA are exploring the opportunity to bring the whole Association together for a week of fundraising...
Would The Sun be able to write their infamous Hillsborough headline today?
'What's the Point...
The Winter issue of WEA News is now available.
The latest issue includes how you...
Melvyn Bragg presents The Value of Culture, a new BBC Radio 4 series examining the idea of culture...
UK universities embrace the free, open, online future of higher education powered by The Open University
Students...
West Midlands' Techno Elders featured in BBC1's Inside Out West Midlands on Monday 17 December...
Don't miss your chance to nominate someone for Adult Learners' Week!
Nominations for the Adult Learners'...
An Easy Way To Raise Funds
Do you shop online? Did you know that every time...
Home-Start Bridgewater Area (H-SBA) is giving a budding writer the chance to win...
Next year will mark 100 years since the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was killed after running...
North West WEA tutor, George Pilkington, has been presented with a Green Apple Award for Environmental...
The WEA is supporting Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, Climate Week, which will be...
Students at WEA North west shared a lovely day last month exploring the paintings and meanings behind...
The Department for Business Innovation & Skills has released research that shows adult learning can...
The Open University (OU) and the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) have announced a...
The Open University (OU) and the Workers’ Education Association (WEA) have announced a...
• Parliamentary event launched by shadow education secretary and WEA patron Stephen...
Trustees’ Week 2012 begins today in celebration of the trustees, directors, board members, governors...
The WEA has been awarded £24,988 to deliver ‘Better for Everyone’, a project to advance...
WEA JOINS A CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER SUFFRAGETTE EMILY WILDING DAVISON
WEA Chief Executive, Ruth...
NIACE has launched its Inquiry into Family Learning in England and Wales and has issued a call...
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has today published the final report from...
Nominations are now open for the Adult Learners' Week Awards 2013! This is your chance to recognise the...
The Lidice Shall Live! campaign is one of the greatest episodes nearly to be forgotten within the collection...
The Open Door – Tackling Disabilities Hate Crime project has been recognised by the TES FE Awards...
Shaheen Aziz (pictured below) spoke on ITV News at Ten about her experience of attending WEA Literacy...
Black history month has been celebrated widely for many years honouring the achievements, culture, and...
The new work by Turner Prize Nominee Luke Fowler is being shown during 56th British Film Institute London...
Following a bid to the Big Lottery Fund, the educational charity Workers’ Educational Association...
The Workers’ Educational Association Scotland (WEA), in partnership with Meteorologist Heather...
The winners have been announced for this year’s Olive Cordell awards! The awards recognise outstanding...
An awards ceremony for the WEA Dressmaking & Soft Furnishings course was held in July at Gayton House...
The Government has published a prospectus for a sector-led Further Education Guild for professional...
The WEA course ‘Create a Radio Play’ was delivered in partnership with the homeless...
Following a successful continuation bid to the Big Lottery the Workers’ Educational Association...
In autumn 2011, a group of WEA North West students with physical disabilities from St Helens Day Opportunities...
• We believe that decent employment is the best anti-poverty strategy. Supporting disadvantaged...
The report suggests over 100 policy changes to laws and regulation surrounding charities, the overarching...
A major new film by Turner Prize 2012 nominee, Luke Fowler, explores the work of the historian and...
The WEA and the Co-operative Movement came together at the International Co-operators' Day celebration...
Michael Allen, who was a member of Eastern District Executive Committee in the 70s and 80s, has been...
Since November 2011 the WEA has been awarding grants to community projects in the North West. They...
The Bumble Bees Barbarians is England’s only rugby team featuring players with and without learning...
For over 100 years, the WEA’s Trustees have been grown from among the ranks of its membership,...
During March 2012 WEA colleagues, members and volunteers were offered the opportunity to win an iPad...
As part of the Lines of Enquiry project the WEA and Lancashire Museums ran a series of master classes....
On 22nd June WEA held a conference for Community Learning Volunteers at Birmingham University. This was...
Councillors and the Community, the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee at the House of...
On Wednesday 7th November we're staged a day to promote and celebrate the true value of good adult...
For the first time this year a WEA awards scheme will recognise and celebrate the work and achievements...
WEA London region ran an article earlier this year about Writing London, a creative writing...
The focus of ‘Stories of the Tyne’ was the river, but the real stars of the show were the...
Politics and the environment were centre stage at Newcastle's Green Festival in Leazes Park last week.
A...
The Community Learning Innovation Fund (CLIF), a new £4million grants fund from the Skills Funding...
The Digability Project will be funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund for three years. It allows people...
On hearing of Anne’s recent book 'Wilberforce: Family and Friends', Andrew Perrin of...
Occupy Barlaston is a 'Day School' which will take place on Saturday 16th June 2012 at Barlaston Village...
Volunteers are at the heart of the WEA’s activity and vital to our work. Individuals, local communities...
Adult Learners' Week 2012 proved to be yet another success with Workers' Educational Association scooping...
Joan King from Telford, Shropshire has been a WEA learner for a number of years and has completed a...
Each year Volunteering England celebrates the time and effort millions of volunteers give in UK. As...
The National Careers Service, launched last month, has announced a new council to support the government...
Greg Coyne, Education Director (Quality) and Lead Director for the North East and North West region of...
Full details available on the One Day Schools and Federation Events pages of the Federation website and...
Leo Solomon, who has been a tutor with the WEA in Lincolnshire for the past 18 years, has received the...
We’re delighted to announce four Adult Learners’ Week Awards for the WEA this year.
Three...
Taking place across the UK and Republic of Ireland, Voluntary Arts Week is a chance for amateur arts...
An event to showcase the work of the WEA in Oxfordshire took place on Friday May 18 at the Town Hall,...
Last month saw the close of our successful three year national WEA project Learning for Community Involvement...
WEA North East Spring Conference Friday 4th May - free places still available.
This year’s spring...
Each year Burford in Oxfordshire hosts Levellers Day, an imaginative reconstruction based on experiences...
WEA is rightly proud of our many community education based health projects; they have enabled thousands...
Maria Beviar, WEA Spanish tutor, celebrates with learners completing their Spanish conversation course...
The WEA Leicester Branch has always had a strong interest in local history and their recent course ‘Gateways...
Does your community group want to help people overcome barriers and gain the skills and confidence to...
The WEA has always been about the importance of education in a democratic society. That’s...
The independent review of Professionalism in Further Education (the Lingfield review) has published an...
The WEA is among the six hundred charities – and counting – who are supporting NCVO’s...
The WEA's new course on Dickens' historic London is bound to be a winner with literary enthusiasts and...
DAIN Project (Digital Activist Inclusion Network) achievements and particularly the achievements...
Airing on BBC1 from Monday to Friday at 2.15pm every day this week, Secrets and Words is a series of...
A new book telling the story of the British Motor Corporation (BMC)/British Leyland Truck and...
Adult Vocational Learning: Could you be a Commissioner?
A new independent Commission into Adult Vocational...
This Project was run in Leeds at Osmondthorpe Resource Centre from January to July 2011, for disabled...
WEA West Midlands is holding an event to round off the NIACE project on 21st March and they are...
'VQ Day' stands for Vocational Qualifications Day, and is a national celebration of vocational qualifications...
Sylvia Kent is a learner at the WEA Billericay branch. She has studied numerous English Literature...
Many people involved in adult education, including many WEA students, took part in an online survey of...
The WEA was part of the 2012 Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, which attracted almost 13,000 visitors...
Are you planning an event or taster session for Adult Learners' Week? Come along to a FREE workshop...
As part of an initiative to increase volunteering in the UK, some employers and charities this year are...
WEA tutor Dr Paul Olver (Pictured) has co-authored the latest edition of a classic book on Geology....
A legacy has been left to the WEA by Fred and Catherine Adler, who were both fond believers of lifelong...
A new survey looks at how mobile phones and the internet help immigrants to the UK and Europe stay...
Donna Jones MBE, writer and artist from Sheffield, has recommended WEA creative writing courses in a...
The WEA West Midlands region has recently been awarded £22,281 from the NIACE Adult and Community...
Congratulations to Joanna Hinton, who has achieved her NVQ Level 3 Advanced Level Apprenticeship in...
Home-Start Bridgwater Area is an independent, small charity, which opened in January 2011, to help...
The WEA's most recent summary of relevant external policy issues is available here.
...
WEA Tutor Elizabeth Sarkany (pictured on the right) appeared on BBC London’s Robert Elms Show 94.9fm...
WEA tutor Hazel Richardson tells us of a former student from one of her literacy courses in Batley, who...
Here's your chance to reward a learner for their hard work or a project that has helped people...
While you’re shopping online, you can also support the WEA or any other charity at no extra cost....
Existing WEA learners will become the founding members of a new network of activity and support which...
For the first time in its 108 year history the WEA has appointed a woman as its new Chief Executive....
“It’s given me the confidence to become a more active member of my own local community”...
For the history lovers, we’re giving away a copy of ‘Knapton: Twentieth-Century Village Voices’...
Professor Henry Benedict Tam's recent essay explores how learning has been used throughout...
WEA's Conference 2011: 'Equality Inclusion and Action in Adult Education' was a chance for adult education...
A major new WEA archaeology project, starting this month in Yorkshire and the Humber, has been awarded...
Friday 28 October, 10.00am to 4.00pm
East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham
A...
Cliff Allum, Chief Executive of Skillshare International has been elected as WEA Treasurer in our first...
The WEA is recruiting for two senior posts for the organisation, a Chief Executive and General Secretary...
The Government has announced a new public consultation, to find out your views about local adult education...
The Workers’ Educational Association North East are celebrating 100 years of providing adult...
A new report is just out highlighting project work from the second year of our Learning for Community...
Across England the WEA has been successful with six bids to the Adult & Community Learning Fund.
A...
Nearly 50,000 WEA members from around the country are getting their chance to vote on who should become...
Students across the West Midlands are starring in a new film produced by the local regional office to...
Last week saw the winners announced for the third annual Olive Cordell Awards. The award scheme came...
Margaret East, Chair of South Tyneside WEA branch. Picture courtesy of The Shields Gazette.
WEA...
The WEA North East Region's centenary celebrations moved to a new level at the historic Durham Miners'...
An online democracy campaign, run by avaaz.org, to allow people to voice their protest at the imminent...
A new WEA branch in Northolt, West London, is helping members of the Nepalese community learn English...
"Don't throw away the chance to give a greater say to local people," is the message to MPs around the...
A WEA East Midlands project which has been set up to close the 'digital divide' and encourage people...
Two thousand volunteers have been trained as part of the Community Learning Champions Support programme,...