Find Yourself Here with Everyday Learning Spaces: Adult Learners’ Festival 2024
Announcing the 18th annual AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival, with the theme Everyday Learning Spaces #FindYourselfHere
Increases to university bursary for students from under-resourced communities welcome, but further change needed to bridge the class gap in university access
Discussion of changes to the 1916 Bursary, which supports people to access third level education. The piece suggests that this bursary should be reviewed and expanded
AONTAS in Europe: EUCEN Autumn Conference and Smile Symposium
Writing by Ecem Akarca, EU Projects Coordinator.
We’re always working with our European colleagues to achieve our collective goals of making education more accessible for everyone.
AONTAS in Europe: AONTAS’ Educational Exchanges
Writing by Ecem Akarca, EU Projects Coordinator.
We’re always working with our European colleagues to achieve our collective goals of making education more accessible for everyone. We actively organise and host study visits and summits to foster meaningful exchanges with our colleagues from across the EU. Let’s look at some recent examples.
AONTAS in Europe: Adult Learning and Collaboration
Writing by Ecem Akarca, EU Projects Coordinator.
In the dynamic landscape of European adult education, it’s so important to collaborate with other organisations that do similar work to us at AONTAS. Knowledge-sharing events are central to this. We’re always active in this and looking for new opportunities. Let’s take a look at an example from last year.
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 […]
Learners’ Voices Across Ireland: New research findings from 2023
The latest findings from our research into Further Education and Training show that what benefits people most is the care and respect shown to them by tutors. This is in contrast with common experiences of learning at school, which can be more authoritarian, or experiences of learning at university, which can be more hands-off.
2023 Highlights from AONTAS
2023 will soon be drawing to a close and we’re getting ready to close up the AONTAS offices for the holidays and head home for some mince pies.
A lot has happened this year! Let’s take a look back at the highlights.
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