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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Train the Trainer
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 25 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Trevor England
    'Train the Trainer' is a practical 2 day course designed to help you gain ideas for effective facilitation and managing groups. It is suitable if you are thinking of becoming a trainer and want to gain confidence in planning and facilitating the training, or if you are an experienced trainer and want to refresh your practice. You will leave with some tools and techniques that will ensure your training is engaging and productive for your learners. On day 2 you will have the opportunity to deliver a short micro-training or interactive presentation. You are required to attend both days of this course.
    Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £129.00
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  2. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  3. Introduction to Islam: historical emergence, current issues
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 31 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Farid Panjwani
    The course is about exploring Muslim history: What is Islam? Who is a Muslim? This course explores these questions through a study of the Quran, the Prophet and the socio-political and religious developments in the early history of Muslims. You may discover that there is more than meets the eye.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  4. Spanish 3/4: grammar workshop - connecting words
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 31 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Roser Martínez-Sánchez
    Mejora tu comprensión de conectores en español a través de juegos, prácticas orales y actividades escritas. Este curso es ideal para estudiantes de Spanish 3 lower/upper o si te estás preparando para el examen A-level or DELE B1.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  5. Spanish 3: focus on listening
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 31 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    This skills-based course is for lower intermediate learners of Spanish and aims to train you on strategies you can apply to listen more effectively to spoken Spanish in a variety of different contexts. You will also look at elements of pronunciation to give you a better idea of how Spanish is spoken.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £32.00
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  6. Gua Sha body massage: CPD workshop
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 31 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Mark Woollard
    Gua Sha is a traditional Chinese medicine practice in which a tool is used to scrape people’s skin in order to reduce inflammation and chronic pain. It can also help to relieve muscular pain and tension.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  7. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  8. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £229.00
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  9. Reiki 2 Certificate
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 1 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Oge Okoh

    Learn how to use Reiki symbols for distance healing. To be eligible for this intensive workshop you need to be familiar with all the hand positions learned on 'Certificate in Reiki: stage 1' and have practised Reiki regularly on yourself.

    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £219.00
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  10. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  11. Digital skills for business: how to present and communicate data integrating Word, PowerPoint and Excel - a project-based approach (advanced)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 1 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Are you already an experienced and skilful user of Word, Excel and PowerPoint? Are you working as a lead administrator? Do you want to extend your skills so you can integrate these three programs to produce high quality and sophisticated documents? This course will help you combine your Microsoft 365 skills by working on business projects that enable you to analyse data at a high level and also present your findings in a clear and dynamic way. You will learn how to link and embed data across the programs, how to integrate Excel data and charts with PowerPoint and Word, how, how to use Word to create a new PowerPoint presentation and how to use Word to create customizable PowerPoint speaker notes and handouts.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00
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  12. Italian 3 Conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Vistola
    This skills-based course is for intermediate learners of Italian and is intended to improve your Italian speaking skills in everyday situations. We will be looking at both formal and informal scenarios, and the aim is to help you to feel more comfortable speaking Italian in order to improve your fluency.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  13. Fixity and Flux: poetry in motion
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Suzannah V. Evans
    Come and revel in the sheer variety and possibility of poetic form, as we consider how form might shape what a writer has to say and how they say it. This course will allow you to explore the many shapes that a poem can take.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  14. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  15. The art of negotiating
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gavin Illsley
    Negotiation is a communication skill essential in solving problems and reaching your goals. Learn to prepare well and to feel confident using logical and emotional tools to achieve great outcomes. The course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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