Daily we are hearing about the recession, enough to make us want to dive under the covers and only come up or air when things improve! The 6pm news is enough to have us stampeding to the doctors crying out for prozac! Instead of doing that, add another string to your bow and learn another skill, improve your hobby, meet people and have a laugh along the way.
The AONTAS Adult Learners' Festival will run for the third time from February 2nd to February 6th During that time a number of training providers will be running courses to coincide with the festival. Over one hundred events took place over the week of last year's Festival, with even more due to take place during this year's event.
During the week we will be celebrating twenty years of the VTOS (Vocational Training and Opportunities Scheme) programme, and AONTAS will launch a major piece of research about the lifelong learning needs of older people. For the first time, next years' Festival will include a 'Learn at Work' Day, which takes place on Thursday February 5th, and AONTAS is delighted to be working with ICTU, IBEC and other organisations to use that opportunity to focus on the issue of training, upskilling and education in the workplace. It is more crucial than ever despite the economic downturn, that government invest in adult learning in order to build our future economy and society.
Aontas have supplied a map with locations of were different events around the country are taking place.
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