Fran and John Andel who are based in Bedfordshire England have worked in adult education for over twenty years, in John's case, over 30 years! They have both worked for the Open University.

John has a BA (hons), MEd, and DipAE and Fran has a BA (Hons) and a Masters Degree. They are totally committed to maintaining a service for adults who want to learn in a friendly, sociable and enjoyable environment. This is they are organising trips and study days to back up our Distance Learning Courses. They already do this locally and know from experience how much students benefit from these 'days out'.

Adult education in its present diverse and stimulating form is under direct threat from government changes in educational funding and bureaucratic requirements.

This will soon mean you can learn for life, but only if you can afford expensive fees! The new funding strategies mean many 'academic' type courses will not be offered in AE any more. They will be priced out of existence. This is especially true of history, archaeology, literature, psychology and others course of the same type.

Fran's expertise is history, and so they put together this site to help adults to continue to have access these types of subjects. Thet try to keep the costs as low as we can, and as competitive as we can.

Their courses will range from the Prehistoric era right through to the English Civil War. They will include short ‘biography’ courses on various British and European monarchs.

They have tried to cut 'red tape' and 'form filling' down to a minimum. They have also taken off the pressure of having to take a public examination at a given time. Hopefully, we're giving students the freedom to study when they want to, where they want to and what they want to at their own pace.

Distance courses can be lonely, and so we've arranged a series of trips and study days through the year. Family and friends over 18 years of age are also welcome. They hope to expand these in the future.

Offering both whole courses structured around GCEs in Ancient History and British & European History, and short ‘Understanding History and Archaeology ’ courses, we aim to provide a varied, informative and entertaining service for anyone wanting to learn about the Past in a structured and enjoyable manner.

For more information visit: Lessons of history.