Alison.com Offers Free Online Interactive Courses in Conjunction with Adult Learners Week
As part of the International Adult Learners Week, May 15th -21st, ALISON.com is delighted to offer in excess of 70 free online interactive courses and certifications to help adults learn and up-skill.


GALWAY, IRELAND, May 22, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Adult Learners Week is celebrating the achievements of adult learners in transforming their lives through learning, and is encouraging others to take the plunge. Never before has education and learning been so imperative for the individual, and the economy. Unskilled jobs no longer exist and the era has gone where one skill would prepare you for a working lifetime. Economies face serious skills shortages, thus, continuous learning is essential for the economy.

The recession is encouraging young people to remain in education, and older individuals to pursue retraining. There has been a swell in numbers enrolling for courses to gain new skills and develop their interests. And rightly so, as adult education generates an enhanced quality of life and minimizes peopleâEUR s dependence on the state. As for the workplace, employerâEUR s reports stress the need for a more socially and technically skilled workforce as the challenges of technological innovation and globalisation continue to grow.

Yet ironically, one consequence of the recession is that employers worldwide are training and up-skilling fewer people. In the UK, figures suggest investment is down from ÂGBP14 million in 2007 to ÂGBP12.8 million today. Government subsidies for adult learning, too has stagnated with concentration in work-related learning paid for with reductions in spending on community-based learning.

Alan Truckett, director of the UK National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) says, âEURœThere is a serious risk that pressures on public finance will limit the scope for adult learning to promote economic competitiveness and community cohesion.âEUR� The economic restraints results in the issue; how limited resources are best deployed to reach the social and economic goals.

As funding from both the public and private sector continues to contract, the free learning provider, ALISON.com provides a solution to this cyclical quandary. ALISON provides self- paced, multimedia certified courses online free of charge. These courses are ideal to a vast majority of people from those who want to familiarise themselves with Microsoft Office excel, or others wishing to gain knowledge about the corporate management. Chose from a broad range of certifiable subjects including Digital Literacy, Business and Enterprise Skills, Financial and Economic Literacy, Health and Safety Compliance, English Language Skills, Soft Skills and Personal Development and a range of SchoolâEUR s Curriculum courses.

To access these free online courses go to www.ALISON.com

For further information, please contact Rdelaney@alison.com

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