HF Adult Education service wins award

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Hammersmith & Fulham Council's adult education service has won the annual Sign Up Now Prospectus Competition, organised by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE). Entries were received from across the whole raft of post-16 learning organisations - from universities to community and voluntary sector groups - each hoping to win £500 worth of NIACE resources.

Rachel Thomson, Senior Campaigns Officer at NIACE and one of the judges, said, "The Sign Up Now Prospectus Competition - supported by the European Social Fund and the Department for Education and Skills - is a means of rewarding providers for the clarity, appropriateness and usefulness of their pre-enrolment literature. The materials produced by Hammersmith & Fulham Council's adult education service to promote their courses this year are outstanding - informative, user-friendly and with excellent design. The judges had a tough job - but Hammersmith & Fulham are worthy winners and we hope their success will lead to more and different adults learning in the borough."

Elaine Lewis, marketing co-ordinator for Hammersmith & Fulham Council's adult education service, said: "This is the first course guide I have produced for Hammersmith & Fulham and I have enjoyed being able to respond to what our students told us they needed. Hammersmith & Fulham Council's adult education service has been fantastic to work with and I am delighted we have won first prize from NIACE."

Cllr David Williams, Hammersmith & Fulham Council's deputy for education, said: "The guide is the shop window for our exciting range of courses and we have taken great care to make it as interesting and accessible as possible. Credit must go to our marketing co-ordinator, Elaine Lewis, and her head of service, Tony Woodward, for this. We fully support adult education - once regarded as the poor cousin - as it provides so many opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds, sometimes leading to a career change."

He ended, "We are working hard to increase participation in adult education in the borough and this award will encourage us to be even more creative and dynamic."

Alongside the success of Hammersmith & Fulham Council's adult education service, the prospectuses of Hadlow College in Tonbridge, Kent, Goldsmiths College at the University of London and Southend Adult Community College were all highly commended by the judges.

 

January 30, 2005