Adult education
We offer a range of part-time qualification and community learning courses for Brighton & Hove residents aged 19 and over.
About the Adult Education Hub
The Adult Education Hub gives you the opportunity to learn new skills and improve your career options.
Find a wide range of classes and workshops are including courses in:
- work and employability skills
- pre-employment training for specific city industries
- English, Maths and English For Speakers Of Other Languages (ESOL)
- wellbeing and personal development
Our Adult Learning Programme is carefully targeted to meet the needs of local people. We work with our communities, local enterprise partners and key stakeholders to ensure learning opportunities reach those that need them most.
We look forward to helping you increase your skills.
Our courses are funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and the majority are free.
Skills Bootcamps
Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible training courses, typically lasting up to 16 weeks, designed to help adults upskill and retrain in sectors with skills shortages. They are employer-led, focusing on building in-demand skills and offering participants a job interview on completion.
Go to the Adult Education Hub.
Adult and Tailored Learning supply chain policy 2024 to 2025
This policy sets out how we meet the ESFA’s funding rules through subcontracting arrangements. We are committed to best use resources to secure and deliver adult learning provision.
Read our Adult and Tailored Learning Supply Chain Policy 2024 to 2025.
Step By Step
The Step by Step Project is a 6 or 12 week, 1-1 learner-centred programme, focussed towards improving English, maths or digital skills for residents living in supported housing, who have had a history of homelessness or rough sleeping.
To contact the Step by Step project, send an email to stepbystep@brighton-hove.gov.uk or phone 07713 711174.