Hounslow Adult & Community Education (HACE) offers part-time courses for adults throughout the London Borough of Hounslow at over 60 different locations, catering for a diverse population with a wide range of educational needs.
HACE (Hounslow Adult And Community Education) offers fully-trained, well-prepared tutors and friendly, helpful staff catering for around 7,500 students each year.
What's on offer
Hounslow Adult & Community Education offers well over 1,000 vocational and leisure courses - in mornings, afternoons and evenings.
Throughout the year Hounslow Adult & Community Education also offers short workshops in selected subjects.
Creches or funding for childcare are provision is available for students who are taking courses which lead to a qualification.
There is a Learning Information Centre which provides:
- Information, Advice and Guidance for those who need help finding the right course or planning a career
- General information about all courses
Course fees on qualification courses are waived for students who are 18 or under or who are on means-tested benefits.
Location
Courses are taught at schools within Hounslow, plus more than 60 other outreach locations.
There are 4 main enrolment sites based in Chiswick, Cranford, Hounslow Manor and Feltham; all are accessible by road and bus, and some by rail and tube. Most of the sites have disabled access. Details of parking and transport links are available on the HACE (Hounslow Adult And Community Education) website,
www.hounslow.gov.uk/adulteducation.
Facilities
Up-to-date equipment is available to students, ranging from the state-of-the-art beauty suite at Brentford to a series of ICT rooms, dance studios, kitchens and pottery studios.
Subject Strengths
Hounslow Adult & Community Education offers a full range of courses in the subjects listed below. There are qualification and non-qualification courses at a variety of levels and students can choose to progress to suit their own particular tastes.
- Arts, Crafts, Media and Floristry
- Beauty
- Business & Administration, including Return to Work
- Childcare & Classroom Assistant
- English as a second language, both ESOL and EFL
- Fitness
- ICT; this subject was classed as outstanding by the last ALI inspection
- Languages
- Literacy & Numeracy
- Maths & English GCSE
- Music and Performing Arts
Hounslow Adult & Community Education also offers Wider Family Learning and Family Learning, Literacy and Numeracy courses in conjunction with Hounslow Primary Schools.
