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ADULT LEARNING How to get ahead Whether you want to improve your job prospects, or ‘up-skill’ for your current job, gaining a qualifi cation can help strengthen your CV and help you get ahead. Ealing Adult Learning offers a range of courses – one of which could be exactly what you are looking for. Lukasz has benefi ted from the courses I n fact, Ealing Adult Learning has more than 200 courses available, offering a variety of qualifi cations and training opportunities. These range from health and beauty to computing; and from business start-up courses to training in health and social care. It also offers a route into vocational traineeships and apprenticeships. Ealing Adult Learning was inspected by very helpful for me. I have improved Ofsted in 2016 and received outstanding my communication skills and am now ratings in almost all areas of its service. able to write better emails that are To enrol you need to be 19 years old more professional.” or older, and to have been living in the Originally from Poland, Lukasz works UK/EU for at least the past three years. as a quartermaster at the London Some of the courses Ambulance service. on offer can build your “The course has ‘The course has functional skills for helped me to progress the workplace, such in my job,” he said. helped me to as maths and English “When I fi rst started I language (including as progress in my job’ was a cleaner, I then a foreign language). went on to an assistant Classes help learners supervisor, then to apply English and maths in real life supervisor and now I am quartermaster. situations through reading, writing, Since I began the course, my company speaking and listening tasks. has now asked me to train the other One of the current learners Lukasz quartermasters.” You can view the Ealing Adult Klucznik (pictured) enrolled Learning prospectus online at on such a course two years ago. www.ealing.gov.uk/adultlearning He said: “The course has been around ealing June 2017 21