Adult & Community Learning continues to thrive with students of all ages and aspirations choosing to enrol on one of the many and varied full and part-time courses on offer.  Many find the experience fun and life enhancing while others find the experience life and career changing.

Courses new for 2012 include:

Garden Design

Garden Design course over three Saturdays in February and March. Click here for more details.

Creative Use Of Your Sewing Machine

The January start for this course is now full. We have scheduled another class beginning on February 24th 2012. We recommend early booking for this class. The cost is only £24 for a five week, 10 hour course (plus £5 administration fee for learners who have not already attended any course this academic year).

Willow Weaving Spring Workshop

We have again secured medal winning Willowpool Designs for a willow weaving workshop on Saturday April 21st. Run by Steve Fuller and Simone Siegan these workshops are very popular all over the country - call now to reserve your place. For more information on Willowpool Designs visit their website here willowpooldesigns

For a copy of our Adult & Community Learning prospectus for January 2012 download here.  Our prospectus is in PDF format - if you do not have a PDF reader on your computer you can download a free copy of Adobe Reader here.

For further information you may want to download a copy of our Adult & Community Learning prospectus for September 2011: download here.

If you would prefer a hard copy or you would like to enrol please call our Admissions team on 0161 486 4602 (Cheadle) or 0161 484 6602 (Marple).    

Courses on offer include: 

• ACCESS - an alternative route to university for those without any or with only a few qualiifications
• GCSEs in English and Mathematics
• ICT, Computing & Photoshop
• Counselling
• Languages at all levels
• Gardening & Horticulture
• Learning for Leisure - a range of courses in Art & Design, Creative Techniques, Health & Fitness, Languages,  Sensory Impairment, History, Creative Writing, Wine, Public Speaking, Guitar, Golf and lots more
• Occupational Learning - Apprenticeships, customised short courses etc.

Tutors are friendly, experienced and knowledgeable and there is an excellent level of Advice & Guidance to help and support students both before enrolment and during the course.

All students benefit from a welcoming, friendly and well-resourced learning environment where they enjoy being part of an interesting, lively and diverse student community.  Click here to see the comments our learners made in our 2009 - 2010 Learner Survey

Although the bulk of our courses start in September there are other comprehensive programmes that start at different times - please contact Admissions for details:

Cheadle:  0161 486 4602
Marple:  0161 484 6602