Useful links

Connexions: Bedfordshire & Luton |
Connexions is the new advice, guidance and support service available for every young person aged 13-19.

A Personal Adviser will be able to help you make important decisions in your life about education, training, employment, and other life choices.

Learndirect|
learndirect offers a range of flexible courses to help you learn about computers, office skills and self development. learndirect courses are primarily online so you can work at your own pace from home, at work or in a learndirect centre.

Adult & Community Learning currently offer learndirect at venues in Houghton Regis, Bedford and Clifton, see details on home page for contacts.

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education |(NIACE)NIACE is a registered charity  and a company limited by guarantee under English law. It is a membership organisation, with individual members and more than 260 corporate members across the full range of providers, policy makers and users of adult learning opportunities. NIACE headquarters are in Leicester, England and Cardiff, Wales. The organisation employs more than 150 staff.

The Learning and Skills Council|
The Learning and Skills Council is responsible for funding and planning education and training for over 16-year-olds in England.

The National Grid for Learning|
The National Grid for Learning is the gateway to educational resources on the Internet. The NGfL provides a network of selected links to web sites that offer high quality content and information. Whether you are learning, supporting, teaching or managing, there are resources on the NGfL for you.is the gateway to educational resources on the Internet. The NGfL provides a network of selected links to web sites that offer high quality content and information. Whether you are learning, supporting, teaching or managing, there are resources on the NGfL for you.

The Open University| 
The Open University admitted its first students in 1971. It is the UK's largest university, with over 200,000 students and customers. The OU represents 22% of all part-time higher education students in the UK.

waytolearn.co.uk|
Developed by the Department of Education and Skills (DfES), and partner organisations, way to learn is a web portal for adult learners. The portal pulls together, in one convenient place, links to all the information that adult learners may need. This will help you make better-informed decisions about learning.

The portal points you in the right direction to answer any questions you may have regarding learning, as well as encouraging and inspiring you to return to learning.
The site also contains the latest news, case studies, course details as well as advice and support.