Supporting Health and Wellbeing at the AONTAS STAR Awards
The STAR Awards recognise the very best in adult learning in Ireland. We celebrate and acknowledge the incredible adult learning initiatives going on across the country, in support of learners, as part of the AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival.
Free Adult Learners’ Festival Resources: Create Your World
The AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival 2023 will take place from March 6th to 10th, with the theme of Create Your World. We’ll be celebrating adult learning , with events taking place in Dublin and across the country. You can register events on www.adultlearnersfestival.ie
First Northern Ireland community education census aims to support learning providers
The AONTAS Northern Ireland Community Education census is a new research project that will provide evidence of the benefits of community education for communities and families. This can be used to help demonstrate the need for reliable, sustainable funding and political support for the sector.
Lack of childcare continues to be a barrier to accessing Further Education and Training
AONTAS’ research shows that a lack of childcare is a recurrent issue for parents who have returned or hope to return to education. Here, AONTAS Research Officer Dr Laura Lovejoy reflects on the urgent need for childcare to support parents in Further Education and Training.
Lack of childcare continues to be a barrier to accessing Further Education and Training
AONTAS met with representatives of more than 20 local community learning groups based around the Northwest, in a meeting at Northwest Regional College Strand Road campus in Derry/Londonderry on Thursday 26th January. Called ‘Supporting the Sector, Supporting the Learner’, the event focused on the crucial, person-centred support that community education offers.
Are you planning to hold an event for the Adult Learners’ Festival 2023?
The AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival 2023 will take place from March 6th to 10th, with the theme of Create Your World. We’ll be celebrating adult learning , with events taking place in Dublin and across the country. You can register events on www.adultlearnersfestival.ie
Create Your World with the AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival 2023!
The AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival 2023 will take place from March 6th to 10th, with the theme of Create Your World. We’ll be celebrating adult learning , with events taking place in Dublin and across the country.
Supporting the Community Learning Sector: Getting together in Derry
AONTAS met with representatives of more than 20 local community learning groups based around the Northwest, in a meeting at Northwest Regional College Strand Road campus in Derry/Londonderry on Thursday 26th January. Called ‘Supporting the Sector, Supporting the Learner’, the event focused on the crucial, person-centred support that community education offers.
A Quick Review of the Adult Learners’ Festival 2022!
Taking a look back at the AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival 2022, and some ideas of how to get involved with the Festival in 2023
We’re Recruiting for New Facilitators
AONTAS is recruiting for new facilitators for our External Facilitator Panel, working with adult learners from across Ireland as part of our National Further Education and Training Learner Forum. This is an ongoing mixed-methods research project into people’s experiences of FET in Ireland