Adult Learning Policy

From Politics to People: A Culture of Care in Community Education”: Adult Learners' Festival 2025 Policy Discussion

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for this year's policy discussion as part of the annual AONTAS Adult Learners' Festival. 

The event focused on demonstrating to the new Government that community education is the policy solution they need in response today’s societal challenges.  

Read a review of From Politics to People 

 

 

 

Click here for more on the AONTAS Adult Learners' Festival 2025 

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Take a look back at our Policy Discussion from March 2024: 

"Who Does It Cost? How greater investment in adult learners will strengthen Irish society" focussed on policy solutions to the growing levels of poverty and income inequality for adult learners in Ireland. Read all about the event here. 

"If Ireland really wants to lead the way in education, if we really want a more equal society, we need greater investment in adult learning" - read AONTAS CEO Dearbháil Lawless in the Journal

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"Stepping Stones and Stable Roots" from the Adult Learners' Festival 2023:

We explored the indispensable role of community education in Ireland, and debated its relationship to the new Unified Tertiary Education Systemfrom the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science, which seeks to better connect the education sector in Ireland. We shared the findings from our evidence-based “Lifelong Learning” research, which focuses on the most marginalised and disadvantaged in our society. Find out what happened at "Stepping Stones and Stable Roots"

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