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Gloucestershire
Adult Continuing Education and Training (ACET)
Gloucestershire
Learning and Skills Council
DfES
Adult Learners Gateway
Adult
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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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Former
lorry driver Milan is following in his mother’s footsteps with his
new career – but he’s not sure what his friends back in Croatia
would say!
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33-year-old Milan, from Gloucester, is studying hairdressing and
beauty therapy at Gloscat, which nominated him for the outstanding
learner award, and is determined to open his own salon in the city.
I need help with my English and it is very hard work – some
days it is hard to keep going, but I want to make a new life.
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Adult Learner award nominee Milan Stojanovic. |
He
says: "I was a lorry driver in Croatia, and on my own a lot, but
my mother used to do people’s hair and I used to watch her.
"She
is still in Croatia, and when I told her what I had decided to study,
she was surprised, and now she is very happy for me - but I think
my friends would just laugh!"
Taking
on a course where you are not only the sole male, but with English
as very much a second language, has not dented Milan’s enthusiasm.
He
says: "I really like the course – my teachers are wonderful and
I enjoy it very much. I like talking to the customers and finding
out about their lives.
"I
need help with my English and it is very hard work – some days it
is hard to keep going, but I want to make a new life.
"I
wanted to learn something I could do in all the countries in the
world."
Milan’s
tutor Veronica Coombes says: "He is outstanding - a bit of a gentle
giant who is well liked.
"We
can only imagine what life must have been like for him in his homeland
but he has talent, drive and ambition and will be a success."
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