Degree-level part-time courses, workshops, and seminars
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The Vaughan Forum is a series of talks, workshops and discussions which are for anyone who is curious and wants to find out more.
We are a cooperative community benefit society set up to provide university-level education dedicated to the needs of part-time learners and to those wanting ‘a second chance’ to study.
Vaughan College Discovery Circles are member-led learning communities.
Kate Carruthers Thomas talks about her family history research and her attempt to reveal stories of those who have previously been sidelined or ignored in favour of male lines of descent.
Dr Stuart Mitchell talks about the Giant Hogweed sensation of 1970
Leicester Adult Education College, Belvoir Street, LE1 6QL ‘Caught short’: London’s loos since the 1960s In ’Caught short’: London’s loos since the 1960s’ Simon Fowler and Dan Weinbren look at the impact of toilets on public life over the past sixty years.
A very dynamic and engaged group met on 18 September to help us launch our Discovery Circles. Fortified with tea, coffee, cake and samosas, between us we managed to generate 15 suggestions for Discovery Circles. These suggestions covered a great
Our Discovery Circle Launch offers a chance to suggest ideas for Vaughan Discovery Circles and to meet those with similar learning interests. Refreshments are included.
Can the journey of a grieving person be helped by the creativity and physicality of the visible repair of objects that have emotional significance? Vicky Cutler talks about the restorative power of visible mending.
Rhys Everquill, Managing Editor at Leicester’s new independent newspaper, The Great Central Gazette, will discuss why he helped set up the co-operative and the challenges facing local media.
An interactive workshop during which attendees will work together to create poster manifestos on what they think adult education should do and look like.
Bradley Phipps discusses the history of the opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and the difficulties in researching this less-studied area of US history.
Announcement of Leicester Vaughan College Annual General Meeting.