AONTAS Strategic Plan Consultation
As the national membership organisation committed to educational equality for adults, AONTAS is seeking your engagement to develop the organisation’s strategic plan over the next four years (2019-2022). We are asking you to please: Complete the Membership Survey and/or Attend one of our Regional Consultation Meetings (Galway, Cork, Louth and Dublin) Over the course of […]
Free Training for AONTAS Community Education Network (CEN) Members
AONTAS, in partnership with An Cosán Virtual Community College (VCC), as part of the European Agenda for Adult Learning (EAAL) is offering a free continuous professional development programme, starting this October. The training will focus on the principles and practice of community education, as well as quality assurance and programme development in community education, with […]
AONTAS Publishes EAAL ‘Learning Today for a Better Tomorrow’ (2015-2017) Report
AONTAS has published a report on the European Agenda for Adult Learning project ‘Learning Today for a Better Tomorrow’ (2015 – 2017). In out latest blog EU Projects Officer Dearbháil Lawless highlights some of the key achievements during the project.
Leaving Certificate One of Many Options for Adult Learners
Leaving Certificate One of Many Options for Adult Learners
AONTAS Welcomes Increase in Lifelong Learning Participation Rate to 8.9%
Increase in Lifelong Learning Participation Rate in Ireland
International Policymakers Learn Best Practice in Adult Education at Inaugural AONTAS Summer School
AONTAS Inaugural Summer School
Irish Men’s Sheds Association Travel to Iceland to Help Open their First Shed
Irish Men’s Sheds CEO Barry Sheridan travelled to Iceland last week to help open the country’s very first ever men’s shed. Mr Sheridan is Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Men’s Sheds Association (IMSA), an all-Ireland movement of over 400 community spaces open to men of all ages and backgrounds. The Irish Men’s Sheds Association […]
Strengthening Governance, Developing AONTAS
Over 50 AONTAS members came together at our 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin on the 23rd May 2018. This year’s AGM focused on a recent review of AONTAS’ governance structures and acted as a starting point for our new strategic plan consultation process. Over the last two years AONTAS has […]
SAOL Project Benefit from Cross Border Collaboration
Three staff members of The SAOL Project will travel across the border to Belfast today (11.5.18) to take part in an EU funded programme that supports adult learning practitioners in Ireland to acquire new work skills, contributing to active citizenship and personal development. The award winning SAOL Project, based in Dublin’s North Inner City, is […]
Learning from the Netherlands most successful academy – Vitesse Arnhem
Monaghan man Barry Dolan travels to the Netherlands to participate in a unique Coaching Education Tour with Dutch football club, Vitesse Arnhem. Mr Dolan coordinators the award winning Moving On Sport and Recreation Programme, based in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, which helps learners to develop knowledge and skills through adult education with a focus on […]