Adult Learning
Discover courses, qualifications, and learning opportunities designed for adults returning to education or seeking personal development at any stage of life.
Adult Learners' Week
Want to try something new but don't know where to get the information and how to start, or daunted by the range of courses available and not sure what to cho...
Adult Learning and Disabilities
Adult learning provides people with opportunities to advance themselves in their careers, gain new skills and meet new people, and should be open to everyone...
Aim Higher With Adult Learning
Becoming a mature student is very rewarding – and, getting a place as a mature student in college or at university may be closer than you first realised. R...
Are You Ever Too Old to Study?
Babies and young children absorb information with amazing ease, and it gets harder (or it certainly seems to) as people get older. So is there any point tryi...
Checklist: Find the Right Course as a Mature Student
It’s never too late to learn something new and returning to education as a mature student can give you a whole new perspective and set of skills. To make t...
Checklist: Finding Funding to Help You Learn
Many people are put off returning to education as they are unsure how they could afford it. As an adult there are a number of different avenues you can explo...
Cognitive Differences Between Adults & Children
There’s an old saying that goes “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and, whether you believe that or not, the same principle cannot be applied to...
Coping With Exams
One of the things many people returning to learning worry about is the prospect of exams, especially if they have had bad experiences when they were younger....
Factors Influencing Adults Returning To Learning
There are numerous factors which motivate adult learning and sometimes it’s a combination of issues which lead them to make that decision. If you’ve been...
Finding Childcare When Studying
If you have children and you want to become an adult learner, you may wonder how that limits your options. Children are of course, a huge responsibility and...
Fit Adult Learning Around Your Working Life
Many adults will say that they would love to go back to college or university or undertake some other kind of academic or vocational course to further their...
Funding Adult Education: Adult Learning Grant
Adult learning support may be available to you if you’re eligible and it can give you up to an additional £30 per week to study if you’re going to be ta...
Funding Adult Education: Career Development Loan
A Career Development Loan (CDL) can be obtained to help with costs for a variety of courses aimed at giving you the experience and equipping you with the nec...
Improve Your Adult Literacy Skills
Being able to read, write and understand spoken English here in the UK is the ‘gateway’ to opening up a world of possibilities to you. In fact, if you ha...
Improve Your Adult Numeracy Skills
As with literacy, many adults have found, through no fault of their own, that they have reached adulthood with all the responsibilities that brings without h...
Learning as an Adult With a Disability
With advances in technology being made all the time, distance learning for people with disabilities has become much easier. When a student starts a distance...
Learning For Migrant Workers
With the UK's exit from the EU ending freedom of movement on 31 December 2020 and with the expansion of member countries over recent years, it’s now though...
Learning For Pleasure as an Adult
Many adults who might consider wanting to pursue some kind of learning course tend to often be put off as they’re not particularly interested in gaining fu...
Learning Languages at Different Levels
Even though English (whether it’s British English, American English, or any other variant) is pretty much an international language now, it is still really...
Learning Together as a Family
It’s always easier to learn something with someone else, rather than by yourself, and who better to learn with than your family! What are the Advantages of...
Life As A Full-Time Mature Student
Whilst many adults will choose to further their learning by combining it on a flexible, part-time basis with their work commitments, many thousands of adult...
On the Job Training - Pros and Cons
Job training can be delivered in a number of ways and 'on the job' training is just one of several ways in which a company might choose to deliver the skills...
Preventing Reoffending Through Adult Learning
Many people who are in prison have not received a good education. Whilst in prison, there are opportunities to learn, and this can reduce the chances of reof...
Taking the Leap Into Adult Learning
Learning can be highly enjoyable if you are learning about something you are truly interested in. If you are returning into adult learning after a substantia...
Teaching Yourself: Can it Work?
Sometimes, fitting a course into everyday life just seems impossible – it’s hard to get the time off for daytime courses, or childcare makes evening cour...
The Adult Learning Grant
Not everyone manages to get all the qualifications he or she wants or needs at school, and starting to learn again as an adult may be the perfect way to top...
The Best Way to Revise
Exams are a difficult time for everyone, especially people who are new to adult learning (see ‘Coping with Exams’), but one of the best ways to take the...
The Different Learning Styles Explained
All of us are capable of learning new things and increasing our skills and knowledge but we don’t all choose to learn in the same way. People have their ow...
What Levels Can You Study At?
What Levels Can You Study At? In adult education, it’s possible to learn at all levels, from absolute beginners to postgraduate studies like Masters’ deg...
Why Go Back Into Learning?
Going back into learning can be daunting, especially if it’s been a long time since the last visit to the classroom or the examination hall. But it doesn�...