The value to me of Continuing Education

What value is delivered by Continuing Education? The government has altered it’s funding to suggest that the only education that is of value is that which will deliver a higher qualification than you have achieved in your life so far. So, if you have GCSEs, A levels are of value (but a GCSE in another subject isn’t); if you have a BA, only working for an MA matter; if you have an MA, only a PhD; if you have a PhD, Education presumably comes to a full stop. Is this your experience? Tell us here.

1.       Six years ago I took a course here in memory and mind-mapping. I’ve discovered that for me mind-mapping is the ideal way to capture my exploration of a subject, and the ideal way to plan (and sometimes deliver) communication of the subject to others. And the subject may be just about anything. So, (for example) a mind map helped me to devise and propose a new IT strategy for an organisation, to explore a religion which was new to me, and to think through my ideas about pacifism and present them to a number of school religious study classes. The idea that because I already have a degree this class was of no value (to me, or to the groups I work with) is ludicrous.

The History of Continuing Education in Reading

Reading and particular Reading people have something to be proud of in Continuing Education short courses in Reading. Look at the spread of the 2008/2009 “Short courses at Reading”, sit in on a class, talk to students about the excellence of tutors that they have perhaps followed into many different subjects. How did we get here? This page is to help us to share and celebrate some of this story. Give us your input here.

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