See You in 2024 for the Adult Learners’ Festival and More!
After an eventful and memorable 2023, capped by our CEO Dearbháil Lawless talking about the importance of educaiton in her own life on RTÉ’s Nine O’Clock Show, we in AONTAS are closing up the office for the break. We will be back on Tuesday 2nd January 2024. We look foward to working on inspiring campaigns […]
Voter Education Tutor Training: Free two-day residential programme from DALC, with €800 support from AONTAS
We’re partnering with Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC) to run a free two-day residential experiential training programme on voter education. This unique training programme is exclusively for CEN Members and will run in Maynooth University on 2nd and 3rd February 2024. We’re then offering €800 towards delivery costs of your own programme with adult learners, to raise awareness of why people should vote and how it makes a difference.
“We need to understand adult learning better rather than only to measure it”: Adult Learner Journal packed with new insights in adult and community education from 2023
An insight into the newly-launched Adult Learner Journal 2023, with all the latest in adult and community education from across the island of Ireland
“Humans are Carers”: Focus on the Care and Power of Adult Education at AONTAS “A Window to the World” Summit 2023
A review of the AONTAS Adult Learning Summit, “A Window to the World”, which took place on Wednesday, 15th November.
Community Education Network Responding to Racism and Community Tension
The next AONTAS Community Education Network meeting will explore community responses to racism and community tension
Nominations Now Open for the AONTAS STAR Awards 2024!
We’re delighted to announce that nominations are now open for the 2024 AONTAS STAR Awards, celebrating adult and community education initiatives making an impact of people’s lives across the island of Ireland.
Adult learning through Art and Creativity: Join a workshop with the National Gallery of Ireland at the “Window to the World” AONTAS Adult Education Summit 2023
We’re delighted to have the National Gallery of Ireland delivering a workshop on how art and creativity can help in the class for adult and community educators.
What did Budget 2024 deliver for adult and community education?
Budget 2024 has made some progress in making access to education for adults fairer, but there are areas that urgently need to be funded and prioritised that were missing from last week’s budget announcement.
Professor Kathleen Lynch is keynote speaker at “A Window to the World”, the AONTAS Adult Education Summit 2023
AONTAS are delighted to announce Professor Kathleen Lynch from University College Dublin as the keynote speaker for “A Window to the World”, the AONTAS Adult Education Summit 2023, taking place on 15th November in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
One in three adult learners say mental health problems affect their ability to learn or study
Today, on World Mental Health Day 2023, we are launching the results of new research into adult education and mental health. This new report, FET Learners and Mental Health in Ireland: Identifying Supports, looks at challenges adult learners are facing in relation to mental health, and the supports and structures in place to help.