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The WEA's provision is usually local to its students. In 2015–16 there were over 8,000 courses delivered in over 1,800 community venues and 75% of WEA students travelled less than 2 miles to their class. [1] The WEA has throughout its history supported the development of similar educational initiatives and associations internationally.
Today Adult Learners’ Week is the UK’s largest festival of learning, and the overall purpose of the initiative is to raise demand for learning and skills. It highlights the benefits of learning of all kinds, learning for work, informal learning as well as learning for personal development . 14 to 20 May 2011 marked the twentieth Adult ...
Endeavour High School was created in 2001 from a merger of two existing schools: William Gee and Amy Johnson. [2] In the same year the planning process began for a new school on the site of the former Kingston General Hospital, together with sports facilities on a former council depot site. [3]
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City Gateway was established by a group of people who worked in the City of London and wanted to support the local community. In 2003 it was a small organisation on the point of being wound up when Eddie Stride, a local man who had recently graduated from Cambridge University, joined as a youth outreach worker.
[1] [2] The college provides over 60 online distance learning courses, making education more accessible to those who would be unable to study in a mainstream school/college. The National Extension College was founded by Brian Jackson and Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, a British sociologist, social activist, and politician.
[4] [5] On 17 July 2023 the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited the school and at a subsequent televised interview, announced the intention of the UK government to 'crack down on rip-off university degrees'. [6] The school is part of a multi-academy trust supporting several schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in ...