Adult Education Centre to get new home in town centre location
THE Bray Adult Education Centre will be re-located to premises off the Bray Main Street as soon as possible, a spokesperson for KWETB has confirmed.
The building process has been tendered out, and it is hoped that they will be in the new facility in September 2018.
This follows concerns raised by a member of the public about the centre, which is currently sharing premises with North Wicklow Educate Together on Putland Road.
‘ There was much praise and positivity generated in the media over the opening of the Educate Together Secondary School which long awaited and welcomed by the people of Wicklow, a good thing and I wish them every success in their mission,’ said the local woman, who said she had no vested in- terest in the facility other than concern for the community.
‘Bray Adult Education Centre is now a split campus, operating in part of Pres and part of the St Thomas’ campus,’ she said. ‘ This is causing ongoing problems for students and teachers alike.’
She said that the BAEC students are using the middle and top floor of the Putland Road building and that at the Novara Road facility they are using prefabs to the back of the building.
Their new facility is located off the Civic Plaza, to the rear of the Mermaid Theatre.
‘Many of the students attending BAEC have had difficulties in mainstream education or are vulnerable members of our community and BAEC for the last 24 years or so have assisted in bringing many people back