JOBS AND SKILLS
New courses,
new opportunities
Claudemela
Lopes
Adult learning courses can provide you with a platform to help you get ahead in
the workplace. This is true whether you are looking to improve your job prospects,
or to ‘up-skill’ for your current job. Jordan Smith reports.
S
ome apprenticeship and
training courses even offer a
gateway to an entirely new
career, including gaining
experience in a new industry.
A new course guide is out this
summer, allowing you to choose from
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hundreds of adult learning courses
that start this September – ranging
from arts and textiles to computing;
and from online marketing to training
in education and social care.
Councillor Jasbir Anand, the
council’s cabinet member for business
and community services, said: “These
courses provide you with multiple
paths to achieving formal qualifications
and training – from entry level up to
advanced level.
“Courses are available in community
venues across the borough, in the
daytime, evening and weekends. It
gives you the chance to plan training
into your lifestyle.
“They are also, of course, a great
way to find a new hobby or develop an
existing interest and make friends.”
‘I AM EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THIS
QUALIFICATION WILL TAKE ME’
Sanaz Majidi is currently enrolled on an
adult learning teaching assistant course.
She had been working at a university
teaching English as a second language,
but was looking for a career change.
She said: “After having my son I was
looking for a career that was able to fit
more around my child, and had been
applying for supply teaching positions
in schools but had been told I didn’t
have the qualifications or experience.
I’m now more than halfway through the
course and am already able to secure
supply teaching positions regularly.
“The course has been great because
not only are you learning the theory
in the classroom but you are also on
a school placement two days a week,
which gives you the opportunity to apply