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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. Award in education and training (City & Guilds 6502) - blended
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 11 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Laila Shariff
    The City & Guilds (6502) Award in Education and Training (blended) is an initial teacher training course ideal for anyone who teaches adult learners (or has some experience of teaching) in the Further Education and Adult and Community Learning sectors. We may also accept you if you have not taught before but have related work or voluntary experience. You will be asked to attend 4 Saturdays and 1 weekend - Saturdays: 12 and 19 October, 2 and 9 Nov; Weekend: 30 Nov & 1 Dec. Please note this course will be online except sessions 4 and 5 on 9 & 39 Nov Dec. You may also be asked to come in on 1 Dec.
    Full fee £600.00 Senior fee £600.00 Concession £408.00
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  2. French 2 upper: conversation
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 11 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Avram
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles. Please note that this course takes place every other week.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  3. Art and creative thinking with Rod Judkins
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 12 Oct 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rod Judkins
    Art is fundamentally about communicating ideas. If the idea is strong, the work of art is memorable.
    This exciting, one day workshop, led by Rod Judkins (artist, tutor and author of ‘The art of Creative thinking’ and ‘Ideas are your only currency’) will explore methods to create ideas and concepts and combine them with the process of making. You will receive a signed copy of Art and Creative Thinking when you attend this course.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  4. Introduction to contemporary art: ideas and origins
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Christopher Collier
    Ever wondered what's going on in the mind of contemporary artists? This course explores the ideas and historical background behind some of today’s most intriguing works, from Conceptualism and Video to Body Art and Installation.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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  5. Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapers
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Thorpe
    Would you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? Explore vocal skills and techniques required in these areas and identify what style works for you. This course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  6. Making it Modern: A Survey of 20th century poetry
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Suzannah V. Evans
    What makes a poet modern? What is the different between modern poetry and modernist poetry? How has modern poetry informed the work of poets writing today? Come and explore the exciting range of poetry written in the twentieth century in a supportive and energising group context.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  7. Working with adults who stammer: a course for speech and language therapists
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Carolyn Cheasman, Vivien Grant-Jones

    Designed for speech and language therapists, this four-day interactive workshop will cover assessment and selection, stammering modification, interiorised stammering, cluttering, acquired stammering and an introduction to mindfulness. Opportunity to practise teaching techniques to clients included.

    Note: this course runs on these days: October 13-15; and a final follow-up day on March 30..

    Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £599.00
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  8. Develop your confidence in writing: grammar, punctuation, expression (level 1-2)
    Course start date:  Fri 2 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Would you like to be more confident in the way you write whether emails or reports at work or messages to friends? Do you want to work on how you form sentences, understand grammar and use punctuation so your writing is more creative? Do you want to learn how to create meaning in your writing?. This course will help you be more secure in your professional, academic or creative writing skills and help you improve some of your weak areas around forming and punctuating sentences with appropriate grammatical form. You will develop your confidence in the most essential areas of writing including different sentence structures, writing paragraphs, using punctuation effectively, using active and passive voices and proofreading.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



    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 £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £90.00
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  9. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00
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  10. French 3 lower: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michel Willame
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  11. Deaf history part 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 16 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Peter Brown
    Find out about the history of Deaf people in Britain and the development of BSL. This fascinating course is taught in BSL. Hearing people with a minimum of level 2 BSL are welcome.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  12. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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  13. Italian intermediate book club
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Vistola
    This course is for intermediate and lower intermediate learners of Italian (Italian 2 Upper and Italian 3 lower, or learners in their third or fourth year of studying Italian) who would like to improve their reading skills and learn new grammar and vocabulary through reading and discussing works of Italian fiction and/or non-fiction. The texts chosen may be in the form of easy readers to facilitate understanding. The chosen texts will be written in Italian, and discussions will be in Italian, though some English may be permitted, so learners will be able to stretch themselves and feel more confident about expressing their opinion and asking questions in class.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  14. Italian 2 lower conversation
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Rosanna Carlà
    This skills-based course is for lower 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. Please note this course is intended for Italian 2 lower learners (learners in their second year of study).
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
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  15. Debt in the global political economy
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Caglar Ezikoglu
    Explore the intricacies of debt within the global political economy, examining its impacts, mechanisms, and socio-economic consequences.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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