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WE Are – WEA North East’s @WEAadulted #Podcast

The WEAre podcast highlights the work WEA in the north east and its commitment to adult education, by focusing on the work staff, volunteers and branches undertake with students, partners and within local communities.

Episode 5 – features an interview with WEA CEO & General Secretary Simon Parkinson about his first year at the helm of the association, and the challenges both the WEA and adult education face in the future.

Also WEA resident historian Rosie Serdiville talks about the different approaches to adult education by the UK and US armed forces during WWII.

One very conformist and one quite radical, but which was which?

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