Adult Learning for Social Change in Estonia
Jacqueline Sheehy from Dublin works in The Clondalkin Addiction Support Programme (CASP), a community service for drug users over 18 years of age and their families. In October 2017, Jacqueline took part in an ERASMUS+ ‘Making an Impact at European Level’ project and visited Tallinn in Estonia where she attended an international conference on active citizenship, democracy and participation, and met with other adult learning professionals from across Europe.
Learner Spotlight – Joy-Tendai Kangere
Joy is an adult learner advocate. She was a recent panelist at the AONTAS Advocacy Summer School and has spoken about her experience of adult learning at various high profile events and on the RTÉ Sean O’Rourke Show.
AONTAS Welcomes Increase in Lifelong Learning Participation Rate to 8.9%
Recent figures show an increase in Ireland’s lifelong learning participation rate. In our latest blog, Niamh O’Reilly CEO, welcomes this increase but explains that the focus should be on widening participation, not just increasing it, to ensure a more effective measure of successful lifelong learning initiatives and policies in Ireland.
Access 2000, Wexford: The Challenges and Successes
There is therefore a tension between an individual requiring more intensive support, which does not always have ‘countable value’, and the potential for penalties to accrue when targets in terms of throughput are not met. This tension is very much an issue for community education providers – the challenge of bureaucracy over meeting the needs […]
Inaugural AONTAS Lifelong Learning Advocacy Summer School
We were delighted to see the first ever AONTAS Lifelong Learning Advocacy Summer School making front page news in The Irish Times following its launch on 18th June 2018.
Learning from the Netherlands most Successful Football Academy
The Blayney Blades Moving On programme were winners of the prestigious AONTAS STAR Award in 2018, the prize included an opportunity to take part in an ERASMUS+ KA1 programme. The initiative, based in Castleblayney Co Monaghan, helps learners to develop knowledge and skills through adult education with a focus on sports and recreation.
Exchange of Knowledge and Learning in Malta
As an EU Member State, Ireland has access to EU funding programmes like Erasmus+ which support people to acquire new work skills, contributing to active citizenship, and personal development. Such programmes allow AONTAS to support our members to promote and profile the work of adult learning in Ireland. It also provides members with an opportunity to learn from our EU neighbours and bring new ideas back to Ireland.
Adult Learning and Skills: a Key Contribution to the European Pillar of Social Rights
Niamh O’Reilly, AONTAS CEO
Moving On Programme Celebrate their AONTAS STAR Award Win
The ‘Moving On’ Programme, Blayney Blades celebrated their recent achievement of winning an AONTAS STAR Award on Tuesday 10th April by hosting a celebratory lunch for past and present students in the Iontas centre, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan.
Lifelong Learning & Mobility: Niamh O’Reilly CEO of AONTAS
2018 marks ten years of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). As invited guests by the European Commission AONTAS will be represented at the 10 year celebratory conference in Brussels on 15th and 16th March.