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Good idea, waxy dan. Useful links you’ve provided too and I’ll chuck in a few more. If people have personal experience of any other lifelong learning providers, I’d love to hear about it, since we get tons of blurb promising the world and not all these guys deliver what they promise.
Lots of handy, easy to access stuff out there, much of it specific to particular interests or career requirements but there is also much that’s more general and pertinent to a wide field. Just a couple for the moment:
these guys have a fair few advantages (learndirect), not least that the Govt may pay for a fair bit of your study. The Scottish version paid over half the fees for a course I did last year. Another advantage they have is that they offer online tuition, tutor support and cd-rom based courses in all sorts of stuff, ranging from the most basic and practical to NVQ upper levels which equate to first degree level. Some of their most popular stuff is web-based delivery of computer skills training. Going to sign myself up for some database training.
They also, increasingly, have local "learning centres" which you can generally access free, on an open learning basis. These will usually offer computer access via robust hardware with all the software you might not have at home and support to guide, encourage and take care of the paperwork /administration for you. These are often run jointly with the University for Industry in workplaces like mine.
So waxy dan, are you a Dapper Dan man then? |
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