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+ Adult Learnersā Week, runs from Saturday May 11 to Friday May 17.
+ It sees thousands of events nationwide celebrating adult learning and is a great opportunity for people to turn lifelong ambitions into reality.
+ Adult Learnersā Week is celebrating its āTen Years Onā anniversary in 2002 with more chances than ever to take part.
+ This year the week also leads people into a month long opportunity to take a āBite Sizeā chunk of learning through May and June.
+ There will be events in town centres, shopping centres, libraries, pubs, schools and colleges.
+ Festivals, taster classes, street theatre and roadshows will give everyone the opportunity to get a taste for learning at a time, pace and place that suits.
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See ACET website for details of Gloucestershire adult learners events. Alternatively pop into your local college, library or adult learning centre, or 0800 542 1655 to find out more.
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|  | Former lorry driver Milan is following in his motherās footsteps with his new career ā but heās not sure what his friends back in Croatia would say! For 33-year-old Milan, from Gloucester, is studying hairdressing and beauty therapy at Gloscat, which nominated him for the outstanding learner award, and is determined to open his own salon in the city. 
I need help with my English and it is very hard work ā some days it is hard to keep going, but I want to make a new life.
 | | Outstanding Adult Learner award nominee Milan Stojanovic. |
He says: "I was a lorry driver in Croatia, and on my own a lot, but my mother used to do peopleās hair and I used to watch her. "She is still in Croatia, and when I told her what I had decided to study, she was surprised, and now she is very happy for me - but I think my friends would just laugh!" Taking on a course where you are not only the sole male, but with English as very much a second language, has not dented Milanās enthusiasm. He says: "I really like the course ā my teachers are wonderful and I enjoy it very much. I like talking to the customers and finding out about their lives. "I need help with my English and it is very hard work ā some days it is hard to keep going, but I want to make a new life. "I wanted to learn something I could do in all the countries in the world." Milanās tutor Veronica Coombes says: "He is outstanding - a bit of a gentle giant who is well liked. "We can only imagine what life must have been like for him in his homeland but he has talent, drive and ambition and will be a success." |
