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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 will take place on Friday May 18 at the Town...
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...
Students and members of the WEA Stroud Branch’s six week course on ‘Cromwell and The Restoration...
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...
The WEA Slough branch has organised an evening at one of the new sites built for the Olympics 2012. 'From...
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...
Are you planning an event or taster session for Adult Learners' Week? Come along to a FREE workshop...
The WEA was part of the 2012 Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, which attracted almost 13,000 visitors...
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.
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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...
MPs are signing up to an Early Day Motion in support of continued funding for English for Speakers of...
Two thousand volunteers have been trained as part of the Community Learning Champions Support programme,...