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Directory of Adult Learning Providers & Courses
Adult Education includes a lot of different activities, from courses to improve your skills for work or career to leisure activities in arts or healthy living. The wide variety of organisations providing these learning opportunities means that courses may take place during the day, at evenings or weekends. It also means that there are courses taking place all over the city as well as in the main college centres.
Vocational qualifications
Courses leading to vocational qualifications (NVQs, BTEC Nationals, City & Guilds, etc)
- Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) – University of Sussex
- City College Brighton and Hove
- Friends Centre
- Portslade Adult Learning
- Varndean College
Higher level vocational
Courses leading to higher level vocational qualifications (Higher National Diplomas and Certificates, Degrees)
GCSEs and GCE A Levels
Courses leading to GCSEs and GCE A levels
Access courses
Access courses are an alternative to A levels or GNVQs for those 19 + years and mature students (those over 21 at the time they start their degree) who want to go on to study at a higher level, such as a degree or Higher National Diploma. Access courses are specifically designed to prepare adults for coping with the demands of undergraduate study and are geared to give a thorough preparation in the skills needed on a degree course.
Degrees
Part-time HE Certificates & Diplomas
Part-time Postgraduate Programmes
Basic skills
Literacy and numeracy classes for adults with basic skills needs.
- Brighton & Hove City Council’s Family Learning
- Brighton & Hove City Council’s Library Service (Learndirect)
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
- The Bridge Community Education Centre
- City College Brighton and Hove
- Friends Centre
- Longhill School (Learndirect)
- Portslade Adult Learning
- Varndean College
- WEA
- Whitehawk Inn Training Centre
ESOL
English classes for people whose first language is not English.
- BHASVIC
- Brighton & Hove City Council – Family Learning
- City College Brighton and Hove
- Friends Centre
- Tomorrow’s People
- Varndean College
- WEA
Adult education classes (general)
- BHASVIC
- Brighton & Hove City Council – Family Learning
- The Bridge Adult Education Centre
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
- CCE – University of Sussex
- Evolution Arts and Health Centre
- Deans Community Education Forum
- Friends Centre
- Portslade Adult Learning
- University of Brighton
- University of Sussex
- Varndean College
- WEA
- Whitehawk Inn
Courses for adults with learning disabilities and difficulties or specific needs
IT courses
- BHASVIC
- Brighton & Hove City Council Library Service
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
- City College (Brighton & Hove)
- Friends Centre
- Hangleton & Knoll Project
- Lighthouse
- Longhill School
- Portslade Adult Learning
- Sussex Community Internet Project
- Varndean College
- Whitehawk Inn Training Centre




