Degree-level part-time courses, workshops, and seminars
Leicester Vaughan College is five years old! Join us at our anniversary event consisting of a programme of short inspirational talks in a magazine style.. Celebrate with our members and supporters, review our story so far and find out what plans we have for the future.
Is knowledge power? Professor John Holford reflects on the impact of Nottingham University's adult education department and what it contributed to the city and the surrounding area.
Prashant Kidambi talks about the 'Indian' cricket team's debut in imperial Britain in 1911 and how the idea of India was fashioned on the cricket pitch.
A talk on Modernist architecture, sculpture, and new towns in the UK during the 20th century
This talks discusses how pilgrimage differs from other forms of travel and why does it remain popular today.
What can surviving murals tell us about their original contexts? What are the limits of our powers of interpretation and reconstruction?
A forum on the landscape of the Catuvellauni tribe, a late Iron Age tribe whose territory was located between modern day Essex, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. How can we reconstruct this landscape?
This is an interactive forum which invites both learners and teachers to discuss their experiences of face-to-face learning. We will consider what, in a period when digital learning is expanding, can in-person education still offer?
Professor Mark Freeman considers the challenges of writing an institutional history of university adult education, particularly in the recent period.
An interactive workshop during which attendees will work together to create poster manifestos on what they think adult education should do and look like.