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Community Education at Northcote College.

Night classes are still happening at Northcote College
Quality education after school

Our 2010 brochure is available at your local Library, Citizens Advice Bureau, or The Warehouse, Birkenhead or you can call us on 481-0144 or email info@learn4life.co.nz with your postal address and we’ll post you a copy. Or you can download a printable copy here

Term 3 Courses start from MONDAY 9 AUGUST, 2010.

What’s new? We have some great new cooking classes - and a social dance class to help you keep fit through Winter and get you confident to hit the dancefloor! You asked for a Beginners Sewing class so we've arranged one on a Thursday evening. Plus courses to help you upskill for work like Emotional Intelligence and Leadership and Communication as well as a host of language courses including Te Reo Maori, Russian and Mandarin.
Migrants are welcome to join our English for Speakers of Other Languages programme and also to practise your English and mix and meet with Kiwis in our community by enrolling in a course such as cooking, painting or yoga. It's never too late to learn!

Check out our Term 3 Website Specials for early enrolment in some courses. Please enrol and pay by 2 August to qualify for the special price.

Many courses fill quickly - places are limited in many classes, so please enrol early.

For 2010 Government Funding has been withdrawn so our courses must be self supporting. We aim to keep prices as reasonable as possible. Two places are available in each course at a reduced fee to those on a limited income, as evidenced by holding a Community Services Card or CSC-endorsed Gold Card.

Government has cut funding for Night Classes for 2010 Learn more

Community Needs - What’s missing?

Please let us know!

It is only from you, our community, that we can discover exactly what our community’s learning needs are. Help us provide the courses that you really want.

Keep on learning - Keep on growing!

New Tutors Wanted

Would you like to teach a course? If you have a passion or interest you'd like to share, why not contact us and suggest a class you'd like to teach. We're always on the lookout for fresh ideas for courses. Call Liz 09-481-0144 now if you'd like to talk it over, or e-mail your ideas to us at info@learn4life.co.nz.

6-10 Kauri Glen Rd,
Northcote.

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Charter

Charter Northcote College ACE

Objectives

To work in conjunction with the North Shore/Rodney ACE network to continue to provide an affordable Adult & Community Education programme that reflects the needs of our community.
To provide courses that encourage a love of education and for lifelong learning.
To encourage participation of Maori students.
To encourage participation of Pasifika in our programme.

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Stop Night Class Cuts!

Funding for Adult Community Education (ACE) in schools was cut by 80% at the end of 2009. The North Shore is not regarded by the Tertiary Education Commission as a community with a high need for ACE Funding.
If the increase in course fees means you cannot continue on your life-long learning journey please let your local MP, the Minister of Tertiary Education Hon Steven Joyce, the Minister of Finance, Hon Bill English and / or the Prime Minister, Hon John Key know how you feel about this decision. A personal letter (rather than an e-mail) is the most effective way to ensure your voice is heard. It is FREE if you address the letter to Freepost, Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18-888, Wellington 6160.

You could also write a letter to the editor to your local newspaper, or call a Talkback Radio station. Or, if you are a Facebook Member, join the Facebook group, "Stop Night Class Cuts!" and tell your story.

Our most powerful weapon in the fight to reinstate ACE in schools across New Zealand is YOUR story of how attending a class has changed YOUR life.

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