Community Education in a Time of COVID-19

AONTAS will hold this event, Community Education in a Time of COVID-19: responding and building back better together for community education, previously planned to take in place in Longford Women’s Link, online on Monday, 12^th October, 11am- 1pm.

The event will highlight the value of community education from the practitioner and learner perspective. We will showcase the diversity of community education and how it effectively responds to local needs. This event will call for specific funding for community education and will launch our community education census.

Community Education in a Time of COVID-19: responding and building back better together for community education – Aims and Objectives:

• To demonstrate the value and impact of community education as an inclusive model of adult learning
• To demonstrate the diversity of community education provision and how it responds to local needs
• To highlight the need for autonomy of funding
• To highlight the need for COVID-19 funding support for non-statutory community education (Read the “Proposal for a COVID-19 Community Education Support Fund“)
• To demonstrate the work of AONTAS and the Community Education Network (CEN)

Audience:

• Policy makers and funders
• AONTAS members
• AONTAS Community Education Network (CEN) members
• Community education providers in Northern Ireland
• Adult learners
• Adult education tutors and practitioners
• Academics

 Details of the event are as follows:

• Date: Monday, 12^th October 2020
• Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm
• Venue: Event held online

Registration essential. Click the button below to register. 

Please see below a full agenda.