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Make New Year's resolutions happen through learning
Whether you want to be healthier, change - or progress in - your career or get on top of your finances in 2008, NIACE - the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - is encouraging everyone as part of their January Sign Up Now Campaign to learn new skills and complete their New Year’s resolution.
Sign Up Now runs throughout the whole of January and encourages every adult to think about how learning new skills can completely transform lives. Colleges, adult education centres, workplaces, libraries, museums, and community centres across the country will be offering information on a wide range of courses from aromatherapy to numeracy to zoology. Advice is also available from learndirect, call free on 0800 100 900.
Adults that know the transformational power of learning include winners of the Adult Learners’ Week Awards in 2007:
Diane Brook, aged 38, from Dorset, said, “Learning has given me a second chance in life… It has always been my dream to become a qualified hairdresser. I never thought I would be given the chance but I have.”
Anthony Bucknall, aged 37, from Wolverhampton, said, “I decided to return to learning because I wanted to do more with my life, and to prove to myself and others that I was worth something.”
Rachel Thomson, Senior Campaigns Officer at NIACE, says:
“Many people find a new lease of life when they decide to learn something new and there are thousands of adults across the country who are proof of how learning transforms lives. There is clear evidence from their remarkable stories that learning can improve self-confidence, mental and physical health and reduce stress and isolation. The New Year is a perfect time to take on a new challenge and steer your life in the direction you want it to go in, start the process by calling learndirect free on 0800 100 900.”
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Brook's Story here [MP3 - 3MB] (If the podcast does not start playing in your browser, right click and save it onto your computer and then play it back through your usual media player) |
Source: NIACE Press Release: "Make New Year's resolutions happen through learning" - [PDF] released on 02/01/2008
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