City Lit awards

Covent Garden’s own Adult Education Institute, the City Literary Institute, has won three national awards.

The City Lit, based in Stukeley Street and Keeley Street, is London’s largest adult education college and offers more than 2,500 courses. It was founded in 1919 and has recently began to look at centralising its activities from its current 3 sites onto the Keeley Street site. The college is best known for its programmes in art, languages, drama, music, health & fitness, humanities and IT. It is also the leading centre for deaf people.

One of the awards is the BT Further Education Award, which was awarded for a joint project with Portugal Prints, a rehabilitation workshop which helps adults with mental health problems to return to work. Portugal Prints is based in Portugal Street, WC2.

A second national success is the £85,000 funding award by the Higher Education Funding Council to the City Lit’s renowned Centre for Deaf People. It will train more note-takers for hearing impaired students in higher education to help alleviate the national shortage of such workers.

The third award is to run a development programme in the use of IT in further education teaching and is part of a national scheme called QUILT.

Local adults studying at one or more of the City Lit’s courses stand to benefit from these awards. The City Lit’s focus on the community it is based in is very welcome news to Covent Garden. The proposals for its new development at the Keeley Street site will, if the necessary funding is secured, be an exciting addition to the ‘attractions’ of Covent Garden.

For further information please contact:
Philip Badman, Vice-Principal, City Lit
Tel 020 7405 1740
Fax 020 7405 3347
Email: p.badman@citylit.ac.uk
Web: http://www.citylit.ac.uk/

© Covent Garden Community Association, November 1999

 

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