Continuing Education

The highlights of our 2005 annual report included our success in lobbying for a fund to develop intensive basic education programmes, finalising Mapping the Learning Journey; development of a homeless and literacy plan; work on family literacy, training and numeracy. It also looks at how we developed workplace basic education provision with FAS and the launch of our Plain English Mark.

The highlights in our 2007 annual report were the expansion of our distance education service, the launch of our new strategic plan 2007-2010, the start of a major new promotional campaign with An Post (the Irish postal authority) and our work on quality assurance at national level for students, leading to awards at Level 2.

The highlight in our 2008 annual report was our publicity work to raise awareness of the opportunities available to motivate people to return to learning, in particular our campaign work. It also contains a summary of our work in TV distance education (capturing 14% of the viewing audience), training developments in integrating literacy, clients of our Plain English Service and much more besides...