TV Presenting and Public Speaking: learning to ‘say a few words’ with confidence
Speaking in public isn’t easy, and we all know it. TV presenters make it look easy of course, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. They…
Adult Education (Page 18)
Adult Literacy and Learning
Saying that further education is the key to career progression and personal fulfillment is all well and good, but it assumes that everyone is fortunate enough to have the basic…
Being curious about lifelong learning
The incentives that are regularly bandied about when it comes to further learning are typically employment-related: how skills can be used to service industry needs; how learning plays a major…
Digital Marketing: Getting your voice heard in cyberspace
Print media is struggling right now. Its position is like that of an elder lion that has led its pride for years but now faces the challenge of a younger,…
Astronomy classes: making an impact
The scintillating, yet sobering, amateur video footage which surfaced a few weeks back of giant balls of light streak across the clear Russian sky made a few things all too…
Childcare’s Boom
Predicting public trends can be like trying to read the future by gazing at the stars. There is something almost illogical behind much of our behaviour, as if idiosyncrasy and…
Which Course Expo – where adult education comes together
Are you considering a part time course in 2013 The next Which Course Expo takes place on January 16th and 17th in the Mansion House’s Round Room, and will feature…
Unravelling the mysteries of finance…
December is always a two-edged blade: we spend most of it celebrating the bedlam of Christmas, and a lot more time than we’d like complaining about the burdens of the…
Part-time study, full-time rewards
College graduations have abounded over the past month or so and many of us will have seen friends or relatives proudly don the gown and collect their certs. Despite the…
Creative Writing Classes: Making friends with your imagination*
After numerous talks, workshops, readings and walking tours, the Dublin Book Festival finally comes to a close this Sunday. For those of you whose creative sparks may have been set…
Don’t shoot – your story needs more work!
James Bond seems to be everywhere these days. He has stormed the cinemas, brushing aside competitors like the bully who’s hit puberty long before everyone else on the schoolyard. Whole…
Getting Connected: Developing Your Internet Skills
When a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is asked how he became bankrupt, he replies ‘Gradually, then suddenly’. The same can be said of how we experience…
Speaking up for effective communication
With the stateside elections now just around the corner, media coverage of the presidential race – on both sides of the Atlantic – has begun to reach fever pitch. As…
Studying the Arts – A worthwhile pursuit?
In times of economic instability, many people feel it their duty to forego the pleasurable in favour of the necessary. This affects course choices as much as anything else: pursuing…
From German to Yoga courses – a man has seen his ‘better’ side!
It seems, in this macho world, that few things can help a man to see his more intuitive side – but it now seems that doing a part-time course is…
One for the Teachers…
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams) Most of us will be willing to testify to the inherent value of education, and rightly…
Have you learned a language today?
Did you know that today (September 26th) is the European Day of Languages No For shame. It involves events all over the continent -from children’s TV shows to conferences –…
