Report ignores community education centres

YOU provided comprehensive coverage of the recent Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) report on the post-Leaving Cert sector (Irish Examiner, August 31).

While the report is long overdue and does highlight areas in which this vital sector can be improved, it chooses to ignore the work that happens in community education centres throughout the country.

A passing mention of ‘second chance’ education and lifelong learning is tokenism on the part of the authors. For years the work at ground-level adult education by these centres, and organisations such as Aontas (National Association of Adult Education) and NALA (National Adult Literacy Agency) has gone unnoticed.