Contacts for academic short courses in the Reading area

It’s good news that Reading University will continue to run a limited number of short courses in 2009/10 and 2010/11, and that there will be a limited opportunity for people who are not registered certificate students to enrol in them. It’s also good news that Oxford University will offer some short courses in Reading from 2010/11. However, we think it likely that these will not meet the needs of everyone looking for academic short courses in the Reading area:

1.      The number of places on Reading University short courses will be limited.

2.      The current price of a 10-week Oxford short course is £125 with no concessions for retired people, and we think this more likely to increase than reduce. Other providers may be able to provide courses for less.

3.      Both Reading and Oxford courses will be offered on the Whiteknights campus, which some may find difficult to get to.

4.      Other large providers (like New Directions and U3A) are very welcome, but offer different kinds of course.

So we have invited the WEA (Workers Educational Association, www.wea.org.uk ) to come back to Reading, and we welcome other organisations or groups offering academic short courses in this area.

While this situation is developing, we will try to keep people informed. If you would like to be kept informed and you don’t yet receive emails from us, please fill in the form below. This will result in your name being added to Reading-ACE’s list of Reading-area students and potential students.

This list will be used to send out occasional emails giving news of courses or where to find details of courses. These courses may be run by the WEA or other providers including the universities. Your contact details may be shared with other providers of academic short courses in the Reading area, but with no-one else. You can at any time ask that your name be withdrawn from the list by replying to one of our emails saying so.

Lindsay Mullaney & Paul Kingston (Reading University short course students 2008/9)  
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I would like to receive news of academic short courses being offered in the Reading area

Notice:

1.       If you use one of the forms on this website to give us information, it will not appear on the website directly. Posting the form will result in an email to those running the site, which we will consider when we next update the site (every few days). So regard it more like writing to a weekly newspaper than taking part in an on-line forum.

2.       We hope you will be prepared to identify yourself to us, so that we can keep in touch more directly as this campaign builds. We will use your details only within the campaign; we will not provide them to any third party, except for the direct purposes of the campaign (eg as signatures on a petition to the university).