Returning to learning

Location, location, location

If your course runs at more than one venue, think about it carefully. You want to make the journey as easy as possible, to maximise your chances of going regularly. Although a course may be offered by your own local authority, it may be easier to go for somewhere near work, on the way home, or with easy transport links, and with a start-time you know you can make without having to rush. This sounds obvious, but students can tell you how frustrating it is when latecomers burst in overflowing with apologies week after week. Francesca Wilson, on a yoga class at Morley College in London, says: 'It's an ideal time, starting half an hour after work, and the college is on my route home - I just get off the tube one stop earlier and I'm there.'