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Peterborough College of Adult Education
Brook Street
Peterborough
Tel: 01733 761 361
Email: admin@pcae.ac.uk

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Peterborough’s Community Education service is committed to ensuring that a wide range of learning opportunities is available to the adult population of the city, and that new learners are encouraged to develop the "learning habit".

Community Education supports the Education service in working to transform Peterborough into a ‘Learning City’ where the educational experience is:

• Inclusive: giving everyone the opportunity to learn
• Accessible: offering equal opportunity and recognising that individuals need access to learning at different stages and times in their lives
• Valued: fostering a love of learning, enriching participants and enhancing their life chances
• Continuous: offering lifelong learning opportunities to all, and ensuring that learners have access to information, advice and guidance on appropriate progression routes to further learning

Key purpose of Adult Learning

The Authority has identified the key purpose of adult learning as:

• to encourage and support learning throughout life;
• to build human capital by encouraging the acquisition of knowledge and skills;
• to develop an individual’s creativity and imagination; and the fostering of an enquiring mind and the love of learning.

The Peterborough College of Adult Education, located in central Peterborough, offers the largest range of general courses, for business and pleasure, both daytime and evening, and one-day Saturday classes, as well as specialist opportunities for the older learner, adults with learning difficulties and English for speakers of other languages. The College also provides training opportunities for unemployed people.

In addition, the City Council has appointed a Lifelong Learning Development Worker, whose role is to work with the area teams and other statutory and voluntary organisations to widen participation in lifelong learning. The main focus of the work will be to ensure local access to learning opportunities through primary schools, local libraries, community centres and other venues. Provision will be based on Basic Skills (Literacy and Numeracy), Information and Communications Technology based learning, and working with parents to support their role as the first educators of their children.

Peterborough Learning Partnership

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