Evening Classes and Adult Education in Leicestershire

Evening Classes and Adult Education in Leicestershire provide further learning opportunities for residents of the Leicestershire community. Courses provide learning and skills focused on supporting career progression, employability and job skills or to progress to further learning.

Discover a fascinating hobby or interest, develop skills to move on at work, or start training for a whole new career – it is never too late to further your education and there are lots of opportunities to learn and develop your skills.

By taking an Evening Class or Adult Education course in Leicestershire you will:

·         Learn on your doorstep at locations in your community or learn from the comfort of your own home, depending on the class or course you choose.

·         Boost your career with qualifications across a range of professions, increase your knowledge in your current career or start working towards a whole new career – the options are endless!

·         Pick up new talents and meet people in your community with similar interests.

Why study in Leicestershire?

Leicestershire is a county as famous for its battlefields as its culture. Trace the footsteps of Kind Richard III and reconstruct the War of the Roses, time travel past Saxon cathedrals and medieval guildhalls all the way to space discoveries.

The love of food runs deep for the people of Leicestershire, with not only a golden mile of curry houses but also world-renowned veiny Stilton cheese, Red Leicester cheese, the Melton Mowbray pork pie,  a vast covered market full of delights and top-class restaurants.

Top places to visit in Leicestershire include King Richard III Visitor Centre, National Space Centre, Great Central Railway, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Curve Theatre, Belvoir Brewery and Donington Park Race Circuit.

The University of Leicester is known for the high quality of its research, with strengths in a number of academic areas. Some of Leicester’s best-known achievements include the invention of genetic fingerprinting and, more recently, the discovery of the remains of Richard III in a Leicester car park.

Loughborough University is a renowned top-ranking U.K. university. It not only provides excellent academic tutoring in all fields but is also host to curricular activities as well. Sporting excellence for the university is high. The university offers a variety of hobby classes like painting, dance, and pottery to its students as well.

Where can I study in Leicestershire?

• De Montfort University
• Loughborough University
• University of Leicester
• Leicester College
• Brooksby Melton College
• Stephenson College Coalville
• Loughborough College
• Loughborough University School of Business and Economics

For a full list of possible classes and courses, you can visit our website and enquire or even book courses that appeal to you.  Visit Whichcollege.ie to search universities, colleges or institutes taking admissions in your area now!

Facts about Leicestershire

·         Leicestershire has the oldest fossils and oldest rocks on Earth. Charnia Masoni, our oldest ancestor and the first multicellular organism, lived 540 million years ago in Charnwood Forest.

·         A field at Lindley Hall Farm in Fenny Drayton, southwest Leicestershire, marks the exact center of England.

·         DNA fingerprinting, perhaps our greatest gift to humanity, was discovered at the University of Leicester by Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1984.

·         The late Lord Richard Attenborough – filmmaker, actor, philanthropist, socialist – and his brother Sir David Attenborough, TV naturalist and zoologist were raised on campus at the University of Leicester.

·         During the Second World War, the brains at Bletchley Park in Bucks were responsible for decoding German secret messages which led to the breaking of the enigma code. Bletchley wouldn’t have worked without its ears, a Y station – a listening post – at Beaumanor Hall, in north Leicestershire.

·         Leicestershire is the only place in the world where you can see steam trains pass each other like they used to do in the old days. The Great Central Railway starts in Loughborough and travels to Birstall.