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Award in Creative Craft: Textiles
Combine your craft skills with key work skills in this textiles course. If you’re a whizz with threads, yarns, and fabrics, why not consider ways to earn a living from your creative skills?
This is the perfect course to study if you enjoy handicrafts and would like to learn employability skills to help you get a job in craft-making. This textile crafts course has a business element to help you understand work options in this area.
Textile design courses are also great if you’re returning to education after a long break, or want to develop a hobby.
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Dates:Fri 13/09/2024 -
Fri 29/11/2024Times:10:00am - 4:00pmDuration:12 sessionsLocation:School of Create (Vauxhall)
MACTAC Building
Vauxhall Millennium Centre
Blenheim Street
Liverpool
North West
L5 8UXTutor:Amanda MeaghanCourse code:Q00017520How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £225.00
Personal Development: Planning a Move to a New Home
Whether you're moving across the country or to the neighbouring town, preparing for a move can be incredibly stressful and overwhelming. Between packing boxes, decluttering, finding reliable movers and possibly getting your current property clean there seems to be an endless number of details to think about. That's why we've created this short course to help you stay organized, know what needs to be taken care of and to keep everything on track so that your move is as stress-free a process as possible! Our friendly tutor will explain how to:
Understand the main costs involved in running a home
Know how to compare fuel prices to get the best deal
Understand the costs involved in furnishing a new home
Know how to communicate a change of address
Know how to organise transport of possessions to a new home.
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Dates:Fri 13/09/2024 -
Fri 13/09/2024Times:11:00am - 3:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:St Petroc's Parish Centre (Bodmin)
Church Square
Bodmin
PL31 2DPTutor:Julian RobertsCourse code:Q00017485How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £16.80
Art Appreciation: Art and the Arts in the 1920s
The course will explore the enriching links between stories, art and music, concentrating of works from 1920s.
From the surrealistic art in France and expressionist art in Germany to the many operas, ballets and symphonies which characterise that tumultuous period.
In America, it is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age", while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Twenties" because of the economic boom following World War I (1914–1918). French speakers refer to the period as the "Années folles" ("crazy years") emphasizing the era's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism.
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Dates:Fri 13/09/2024 -
Fri 18/10/2024Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Colin LomasCourse code:Q00017728How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £44.40
Textiles and Fashion: Sewing 1
Master the basics of sewing with our comprehensive Sewing 1 course. Learn essential techniques and create your own projects. Ideal for beginners looking to develop their sewing skills.
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Dates:Fri 13/09/2024 -
Fri 25/10/2024Times:10:15am - 1:15pmDuration:7 sessionsLocation:Southall Day Centre (Southall)
20 Western Road
Southall
UB2 5DSTutor:Kauser NabeelCourse code:Q00017654How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Literature: British Literature in the Belle Epoque.
This course will explore four novels: The Turn of the Screw by
Henry James; Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; Sons
and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence; The Good Soldier by Ford
Madox Ford, and the work of one poet, Thomas Hardy,
specifically Poems 1912-1913, a record of his reactions to the
death of his first wife.
We will discuss the end of Empire, the rise of Modernism and
Feminism and psychological study, and the political situation
leading up to 1914 and changing perceptions of individual and
national identity.
There will be ample opportunity for discussion and a chance
to reassess what may in some instances be familiar texts.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Mon 25/11/2024Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:11 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Stephen SmithCourse code:Q00017457How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:7 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £74.00
Confidence to Learn
Would you like to learn new skills or change jobs? It can be hard to get back into learning after a long break. This confidence training will prepare you to feel comfortable stepping back into the classroom.
This short course can help you bridge the gaps in your confidence and overcome the obstacles standing in your way to get back into learning.
The objective of this course is to get you into a positive mindset to achieve your goals. You will practise a variety of confidence-building exercises to help that mindset shift come from within.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Mon 09/12/2024Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:13 sessionsLocation:Ancaster Day Centre (Lincoln)
Boundary Street
Lincoln
LN5 8PFTutor:Patrick O'ReillyCourse code:Q00017384How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £16.80
Literature: Dickens and the struggles of life
For Charles Dickens, writing and worrying went hand in hand. His books were knitted together out of his own anxieties and struggles. And yet, despite the weight of all these worries, his novels are never depressing. To read Dickens is to glimpse the possibilities of new life. We all probably intend to read Dickens ‘one day.’ We all know his characters from various films and TV adaptations, so perhaps the time has finally come to get stuck into a major work. On this eight-week course we will read ‘Little Dorrit.’ We will also study some of Dickens's essays, short stories, and letters. You may already be a Dickens enthusiast, or a complete newcomer to his work. Either way, I hope that you will join us to explore a writer whose books still have the power to move and enlighten us today.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Mon 11/11/2024Location:Krowji (Redruth)
West Park
Redruth
TR15 3AJCourse code:Q00013086How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £67.20
Get Ready for ESOL Speaking & Listening (Entry 2)
If you are getting ready to take an ESOL entry 2 speaking and listening course, this course can help you prepare. Set yourself up for success with this ESOL preparation course. Learn verbal communication skills to get up to speed before starting your entry 2 ESOL course.
Get ready courses help you learn English at your own pace. They give you extra study time for each level and module so you can reach your full potential.
This is an introductory English course for beginners. If you’re helping others access entry 2 ESOL classes in the UK, you’ve come to the right place.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Thu 31/10/2024Times:12:30pm - 3:00pmDuration:12 sessionsLocation:Whitecross Community & Recreation Centre
Lexden Street
Warrington
WA5 1PTTutor:Andrea OstapskiCourse code:Q00016597How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £150.00
Award in ESOL Skills for Life (Reading) (Level 2)
Polish your reading skills in English. This level 2 ESOL course teaches you advanced knowledge to help you read and understand a variety of texts in English. Improved reading skills can open doors to work and study options in the UK.
This ESOL level 2 reading course builds on skills you learnt at level 1. Practise and perfect your reading skills in English while expanding your vocabulary.
This is an English course for adults. It is aimed at speakers of other languages. ESOL courses are divided into three areas: reading, writing, and speaking & listening.
If you’re helping others find ESOL courses in the UK, you’ve come to the right place.
This course is funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Tue 10/12/2024Times:9:30am - 12:00pmDuration:24 sessionsLocation:Norton Hall Children & Family Centre (Bi
Norton Hall Women & Childrens
Ralph Road
Birmingham
B8 1NATutor:Imogen DraperCourse code:Q00015521How you'll learn:Online and in venueAvailability:0 places remainingStatus:Fee rangeFree to £225.00
Pre Entry ESOL: Pre entry 2 ESOL
This course is for women only. It will be held at the Dolphin Women's Centre, Washwood Heath, Birmingham and is an ESOL course for beginners. The course will help you to develop your basic speaking and listening, reading and writing skills in English. This is an English course aimed at adults for whom English is not their first language. You will get lots of opportuntities to practice your new English skills in groups and individually, you will also be given homework tasks so you can continue to practice at home.. If you are suipporting someone to find an English class you have come to the right place.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Tue 03/12/2024Times:12:30pm - 2:30pmDuration:32 sessionsLocation:Dolphin Women's Centre (Birmingham)
Ward End Park
Washwood Heath Road
Birmingham
B8 2HBTutor:Romassa SheikhCourse code:Q00015580How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:2 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £268.80