Adult Learners Week is celebrated annually with hundreds of events and activities designed to promote the benefits of learning and to highlight the many options available at home, work or in the community.
Many of the most successful events take place in venues that adults find accessible, friendly, and familiar, such as:
- community centres
- neighbourhood houses
- libraries
- men’s sheds
- community halls.
Adult Learners Week is about:
- promoting the range of learning possibilities
- making learning options relevant and accessible to learners
- creating a culture of lifelong learning
- building a bridge between basic, vocational and general adult education (including literacy and numeracy)
- showing the strong relationship between adult learning, strong democracies and productive communities
- creating a learning society that everyone can access.
Why participate?
- Celebrate the many ways learning nourishes our communities and connects us all.
- Show your communities that adult learning is about more than gaining knowledge — it’s about building confidence, making connections, and creating pathways to new opportunities, whether that’s further study, a new job, or a fresh start.
- Celebrate how people from all walks of life can renew their futures and shape their own stories.
- Shine a light on the incredible learning happening everywhere: in rural towns, cities and suburbs and regional centres across Australia. Show that learning can happen anywhere and everywhere.
Connect with learning during #ALW2025. Find an event near you.