Adult and Community Learning in the Swansea Area

Learners shine at the Adult Learning Partnership Swansea celebration event

This week, an exhibition of adult learners’ work was displayed to celebrate the Adult Learning Partnership Swansea (ALPS).
The celebration took place on 7 November alongside a UNESCO planning event. The latter welcomed both formal and informal learning groups to help plan a celebration of Swansea's tenth anniversary of the UNESCO Learning City Award.

Visitors enjoyed speaking to students and learning about the fantastic artwork on display at the Brangwyn Hall’s George Hall, which was submitted by adult learners from across the city.

Funded by the Welsh Government, the Adult Learning Partnership Swansea (ALPS) is a collective of prominent institutions that works to provide a broad range of accredited and non-accredited courses across the City and County of Swansea to meet the diverse needs of learners.

We would like to thank all the students and staff from across the Partnership for sharing their incredible work and giving up their time to attend the event.

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Welsh Language and Bilingual delivery in Swansea

Over the summer months, some of our team members have been present at a number of events that promote the use of Welsh Language and Bilingual delivery, which help to support the Welsh Government’s Cymraeg 2050 strategy in achieving a million Welsh speakers by 2050.

We have put together the video below that shows Adult Learning Wales’ ongoing commitment to Welsh Language and Bilingual delivery in Swansea in supporting learners in the area to engage with the language and to improve their language skills.

This video has also given us an opportunity to highlight how our pan-Wales Welsh Language and Bilingual initiatives are actioned 'on the ground' locally.

It’s a fascinating view into how, as an organisation, we are working towards Cymraeg 2050 with our learners, tutors and partners towards in embedding the Welsh language into the curriculum. 

- Adult Learning Wales

The launch of a yearlong Swansea Festival of Learning in 2025

Many thanks to all who joined us today to celebrate the launch of a yearlong Swansea Festival of Learning in 2025 and the introduction of a new UK UNESCO Learning City Network. The celebration marks the 10th anniversary of Swansea being designated a UNESCO Learning City.

In 2015 we were the first city in the UK to achieve the award and one of only 12 awarded cities worldwide recognising Swansea’s commitment to lifelong learning, community engagement and educational innovation.

Today at the Dylan Thomas Centre there was an exhibition of learners’ work and a number of musical performances from schools, the African Community Centre and Gower College Swansea.

Follow the Swansea UNESCO Learning City Facebook group to keep up to date with free learning opportunities available throughout 2025.

The latest news from our ESOL Classes at our Swansea Learning Hub!

September marks a new academic year here at the ALW ‘Swansea Learning Hub’ as well as at our other community venues – the YMCA and the Swansea Deaf Centre.

This year we have 6 full time classes, 15 part time classes, 3 contextualised ESOL classes as well as 8 different accredited community classes that have been established with our partners – the African Community Centre and SASS.

We have learners enrolled from over 25 different countries!

Sam Al-khanchi, our Swansea Curriculum Development Coordinator said, “It’s always great to welcome our new and returning learners! Every year we look at making our learning experience better!!”

- Adult Learning Wales

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