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Gloucestershire
Adult Continuing Education and Training (ACET)
Gloucestershire
Learning and Skills Council
DfES
Adult Learners Gateway
Adult
Learners Week UK
Skillswise
Learn
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Adult Learners’ Week, runs from Saturday May 11 to Friday
May 17.
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sees thousands of events nationwide celebrating adult learning
and is a great opportunity for people to turn lifelong ambitions
into reality.
+ Adult Learners’ Week is celebrating its “Ten Years On” anniversary
in 2002 with more chances than ever to take part.
+ This year the week also leads people into a month long opportunity
to take a ‘Bite Size’ chunk of learning through May and June.
+ There will be events in town centres, shopping centres,
libraries, pubs, schools and colleges.
+ Festivals, taster classes, street theatre and roadshows
will give everyone the opportunity to get a taste for learning
at a time, pace and place that suits.
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See ACET website
for details of Gloucestershire adult learners events. Alternatively
pop into your local college, library or adult learning centre,
or 0800 542 1655 to find out more.
Email BBC Gloucestershire at :gloucestershire
@bbc.co.uk
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Like
most parents, 38-year-old Helen Yarworth, from Newnham, found looking
after three boys more than a little stressful – but she got some
much-needed help in the form of parenting courses held at her children’s
school.
"I
was lucky because the headteacher knew we were having a stressful
time and suggested the course - I had never heard of Parentline
Plus courses before that," recalls Helen.
All this has happened because I was a stressed-out parent
and tried to do something about it.
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Adult Learner award nominee Helen Yarworth |
"The
courses were free, and they were local, and immediately we all felt
the benefit because I got the help I needed to cope."
The
courses were so successful that Helen became interested in working
in education and helping children.
She
went on to do a certificate in learning support and now works as
an education leader at the local Dean Heritage Centre.
At
the same time she trained with Parentline Plus so that she could
go on to help other families benefit from the courses.
"Nobody
tells you what to do, it’s all about working out ways of coping
with behaviour and issues so that you raise your children’s self
esteem – that way, everyone benefits."
Before
having her family, Helen was a radiographer but she was not tempted
to return.
She
says: "This is the best job for me now. It combines everything I
am interested in, local history and children, and it fits into school
term times.
"And
all this has happened because I was a stressed-out parent and tried
to do something about it!"
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