WEA
You are here: Home > News

Latest news:

 
Ruth Spellman appointed member of NCS Council

Ruth Spellman appointed member of NCS Council

The National Careers Service, launched last month, has announced a new council to support the government...
 
 
Two day challenge for memorial

Two day challenge for memorial

Greg Coyne, Education Director (Quality) and Lead Director for the North East and North West region of...
 
 
Essex Federation WEA Cultural Olympiad 2012

Essex Federation WEA Cultural Olympiad 2012

Full details available on the One Day Schools and Federation Events pages of the Federation website and...
 
 
Long serving WEA tutor awarded MBE

Long serving WEA tutor awarded MBE

Leo Solomon, who has been a tutor with the WEA in Lincolnshire for the past 18 years, has received the...
 
 
Adult Learners Week Awards 2012

Adult Learners Week Awards 2012

We’re delighted to announce four Adult Learners’ Week Awards for the WEA this year. Three...
 
 
Voluntary Arts Week set to liven up England's windows!

Voluntary Arts Week set to liven up England's windows!

Taking place across the UK and Republic of Ireland, Voluntary Arts Week is a chance for amateur arts...
 
 
Community mosaic for Ruskin College

Community mosaic for Ruskin College

An event to showcase the work of the WEA in Oxfordshire will take place on Friday May 18 at the Town...
 
 
What next for community project?

What next for community project?

Last month saw the close of our successful three year national WEA project Learning for Community Involvement...
 
 
Adult Education with a Social Purpose

Adult Education with a Social Purpose

WEA North East Spring Conference Friday 4th May - free places still available. This year’s spring...
 
 
Come celebrate Levellers Day

Come celebrate Levellers Day

Each year Burford in Oxfordshire hosts Levellers Day, an imaginative reconstruction based on experiences...
 
 
WEA contributes to Diabetes Debate

WEA contributes to Diabetes Debate

WEA is rightly proud of our many community education based health projects; they have enabled thousands...
 
 
Bien hecho estudiantes!

Bien hecho estudiantes!

Maria Beviar, WEA Spanish tutor, celebrates with learners completing their Spanish conversation course...
 
 
Farewell to a Gloucestershire favourite

Farewell to a Gloucestershire favourite

Students and members of the WEA Stroud Branch’s six week course on ‘Cromwell and The Restoration...
 
 
Gateways to the Past

Gateways to the Past

The WEA Leicester Branch has always had a strong interest in local history and their recent course ‘Gateways...
 
 
£1.5 million in grants for community groups

£1.5 million in grants for community groups

Does your community group want to help people overcome barriers and gain the skills and confidence to...
 
 
Are you registered to vote?

Are you registered to vote?

The WEA has always been about the importance of education in a democratic society. That’s...
 
 
End to compulsory regulation of tutors

End to compulsory regulation of tutors

The independent review of Professionalism in Further Education (the Lingfield review) has published an...
 
 
WEA joins 'Give It Back George!'

WEA joins 'Give It Back George!'

The WEA is among the six hundred charities – and counting – who are supporting NCVO’s...
 
 
What the Dickens?

What the Dickens?

The WEA's new course on Dickens' historic London is bound to be a winner with literary enthusiasts and...
 
 
DAIN project celebrated in style

DAIN project celebrated in style

DAIN Project (Digital Activist Inclusion Network)   achievements and particularly the achievements...
 
 
Five new BBC dramas this week

Five new BBC dramas this week

Airing on BBC1 from Monday to Friday at 2.15pm every day this week, Secrets and Words is a series of...
 
 
Short history of tractors in West Lothian

Short history of tractors in West Lothian

  A new book telling the story of the British Motor Corporation (BMC)/British Leyland Truck and...
 
 
Could you be a Commissioner?

Could you be a Commissioner?

Adult Vocational Learning: Could you be a Commissioner? A new independent Commission into Adult Vocational...
 
 
The Making Moves Project

The Making Moves Project

This Project was run in Leeds at Osmondthorpe Resource Centre from January to July 2011, for disabled...
 
 
Men's Health Project - Learning & Meetup Day

Men's Health Project - Learning & Meetup Day

 WEA West Midlands is holding an event to round off the NIACE project on 21st March and they are...
 
 
A day to mark students' successes in vocational qualifications

A day to mark students' successes in vocational qualifications

'VQ Day' stands for Vocational Qualifications Day, and is a national celebration of vocational qualifications...
 
 
The story of Dorney Lake

The story of Dorney Lake

The WEA Slough branch has organised an evening at one of the new sites built for the Olympics 2012. 'From...
 
 
A learner's perspective on the WEA

A learner's perspective on the WEA

Sylvia Kent is a learner at the WEA Billericay branch.  She has studied numerous English Literature...
 
 
Public views on adult community learning

Public views on adult community learning

Many people involved in adult education, including many WEA students, took part in an online survey of...
 
 
Want to run an Adult Learners' Week event?

Want to run an Adult Learners' Week event?

Are you planning an event or taster session for Adult Learners' Week? Come along to a FREE workshop...
 
 
WEA at Who Do You Think You Are? Live!

WEA at Who Do You Think You Are? Live!

The WEA was part of the 2012 Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, which attracted almost 13,000 visitors...
 
 
Volunteer this leapday!

Volunteer this leapday!

As part of an initiative to increase volunteering in the UK, some employers and charities this year are...
 
 
WEA tutor co-authors Geology book

WEA tutor co-authors Geology book

WEA tutor Dr Paul Olver (Pictured) has co-authored the latest edition of a classic book on Geology....
 
 
Legacy supports learning in Oxford community

Legacy supports learning in Oxford community

A legacy has been left to the WEA by Fred and Catherine Adler, who were both fond believers of lifelong...
 
 
How does the internet empower immigrant communities?

How does the internet empower immigrant communities?

A new survey looks at how mobile phones and the internet help immigrants to the UK and Europe stay...
 
 
Inspired student recommends WEA

Inspired student recommends WEA

Donna Jones MBE, writer and artist from Sheffield, has recommended WEA creative writing courses in a...
 
 
NIACE award for men’s health project in Stoke

NIACE award for men’s health project in Stoke

The WEA West Midlands region has recently been awarded £22,281 from the NIACE Adult and Community...
 
 
Staff member completes Apprenticeship in WEA

Staff member completes Apprenticeship in WEA

Congratulations to Joanna Hinton, who has achieved her NVQ Level 3 Advanced Level Apprenticeship in...
 
 
Calling all creative writers

Calling all creative writers

Home-Start Bridgwater Area is an independent, small charity, which opened in January 2011, to help...
 
 
External policy issues affecting the WEA

External policy issues affecting the WEA

The WEA's most recent summary of relevant external policy issues is available here.  ...
 
 
WEA Learners at the Museum of London

WEA Learners at the Museum of London

WEA Tutor Elizabeth Sarkany (pictured on the right) appeared on BBC London’s Robert Elms Show 94.9fm...
 
 
From Batley to Doha

From Batley to Doha

WEA tutor Hazel Richardson tells us of a former student from one of her literacy courses in Batley, who...
 
 
The 2012 Adult Learners' Week Award

The 2012 Adult Learners' Week Award

Here's your chance to reward a learner for their hard work or a project that has helped people...
 
 
Give your bit to charity while you shop online

Give your bit to charity while you shop online

While you’re shopping online, you can also support the WEA or any other charity at no extra cost....
 
 
Health boost for Stoke-on-Trent

Health boost for Stoke-on-Trent

Existing WEA learners will become the founding members of a new network of activity and support which...
 
 
Ruth Spellman to be WEA's Chief Executive

Ruth Spellman to be WEA's Chief Executive

For the first time in its 108 year history the WEA has appointed a woman as its new Chief Executive....
 
 
Training to inspire active communities

Training to inspire active communities

“It’s given me the confidence to become a more active member of my own local community”...
 
 
Prize giveaway for history lovers

Prize giveaway for history lovers

For the history lovers, we’re giving away a copy of ‘Knapton: Twentieth-Century Village Voices’...
 
 
Knowledge is power! says Prof. Henry Tam

Knowledge is power! says Prof. Henry Tam

Professor Henry Benedict Tam's recent essay explores how learning has been used throughout...
 
 
WEA Conference brings sector together for a day

WEA Conference brings sector together for a day

WEA's Conference 2011: 'Equality Inclusion and Action in Adult Education' was a chance for adult education...
 
 
'Digability' is archaeology with a difference

'Digability' is archaeology with a difference

A major new WEA archaeology project, starting this month in Yorkshire and the Humber, has been awarded...
 
 
Equality Inclusion and Action in Adult Education

Equality Inclusion and Action in Adult Education

Friday 28 October, 10.00am to 4.00pm East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham A...
 
 
Members elect new WEA Treasurer

Members elect new WEA Treasurer

Cliff Allum, Chief Executive of Skillshare International has been elected as WEA Treasurer in our first...
 
 
We're looking for a new Chief Executive

We're looking for a new Chief Executive

The WEA is recruiting for two senior posts for the organisation, a Chief Executive and General Secretary...
 
 
Have your say on local adult education

Have your say on local adult education

The Government has announced a new public consultation, to find out your views about local adult education...
 
 
Beamish Museum for free with the WEA

Beamish Museum for free with the WEA

The Workers’ Educational Association North East are celebrating 100 years of providing adult...
 
 
Getting Active with the WEA

Getting Active with the WEA

A new report is just out highlighting project work from the second year of our Learning for Community...
 
 
New community learning projects

New community learning projects

Across England the WEA has been successful with six bids to the Adult & Community Learning Fund. A...
 
 
WEA members start voting

WEA members start voting

Nearly 50,000 WEA members from around the country are getting their chance to vote on who should become...
 
 
Students filmed by Emmy award winners

Students filmed by Emmy award winners

Students across the West Midlands are starring in a new film produced by the local regional office to...
 
 
Winners celebrate personal achievements

Winners celebrate personal achievements

Last week saw the winners announced for the third annual Olive Cordell Awards. The award scheme came...
 
 
Margaret is up for award in South Shields

Margaret is up for award in South Shields

Margaret East, Chair of South Tyneside WEA branch. Picture courtesy of The Shields Gazette. WEA...
 
 
WEA banner blessed at Durham miners' gala

WEA banner blessed at Durham miners' gala

The WEA North East Region's centenary celebrations moved to a new level at the historic Durham Miners'...
 
 
BSkyB online campaign gains momentum

BSkyB online campaign gains momentum

An online democracy campaign, run by avaaz.org, to allow people to voice their protest at the imminent...
 
 
Driving learning

Driving learning

A new WEA branch in Northolt, West London, is helping members of the Nepalese community learn English...
 
 
More power for local communities?

More power for local communities?

"Don't throw away the chance to give a greater say to local people," is the message to MPs around the...
 
 
WEA project is one of Europe's best

WEA project is one of Europe's best

A WEA East Midlands project which has been set up to close the 'digital divide' and encourage people...
 
 
ESOL courses win support of MPs

ESOL courses win support of MPs

MPs are signing up to an Early Day Motion in support of continued funding for English for Speakers of...
 
 
Two thousand champion volunteers

Two thousand champion volunteers

Two thousand volunteers have been trained as part of the Community Learning Champions Support programme,...
 
 

Archive:

Find a WEA course near you...
Spring term courses now listed!
Go
Feedback
We'd like to hear your views!
Go