A NEW partnership has been set up which will shake up adult education across the Bristol region.
Over the coming year, courses ranging from financial management, English, information technology and parenting to pottery, languages and local history will be co-ordinated by a new community learning partnership.
Businesses, libraries, voluntary groups and schools will get involved in providing the courses under the one-year pilot scheme.
Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council, working with colleges, have received approval to launch the project. They are working with the Workers Educational Association and more than 100 other partners to improve community learning.
Clare Campion-Smith, city councillor responsible for skills, said: "This new partnership will help deliver more learning opportunities to more people, close to where they need it. By tapping into rich expertise from businesses, colleges, community groups and local authority community learning teams, the partnership will be able to share resources and target them where they are needed most."
Southern Brooks, a charity based in Patchway, offers courses to help people into childcare, or youth work and family support. Its training co-ordinator Helen Humphries said: "Through the new partnership, we will be able to offer more opportunities to help raise aspirations. If people have been out of formal education for a long time they respond really well to getting their confidence to learn back in the informal setting we can offer."
Organisations backing the scheme include Bristol City Football Club, B&Q, Knightstone Housing Association and the Avon Wildlife Trust.
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