{"id":45011,"date":"2022-09-14T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=45011"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:25:10","slug":"interview-with-conor-thompson-of-aontas-and-adult-learner-kayla-dibble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=45011","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Conor Thompson of AONTAS and Adult Learner Kayla Dibble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, many people are considering options in studying Adult Education at various levels. Conor Thompson, a Project Officer with AONTAS, the Irish Adult Learning Organisation, came to the NearFM Studio with Adult Learner Kayla Dibble to talk with Lifeline&#8217;s John Connell about the benefits of Adult Learning as well as the information resource ONESTEPUP campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5456\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5456','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=45011-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 29:37 &#8212; 67.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, many people are considering options in studying Adult Education at various levels. Conor Thompson, a Project Officer with AONTAS, the Irish Adult Learning Organisation, came to the NearFM Studio with Adult Learner Kayla Dibble to talk with Lifeline&#8217;s John Connell about the benefits of Adult Learning as well as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5457\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5457','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=45011-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"InterviewWithConorThompsonOfAontasAndKaylaDibble.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 29:37 &#8212; 67.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32,33],"tags":[21622,4222,16886,21612,8831,12281,20157,21617,21615,21624,21623,21613,21620,2118,21610,21611,21616,21618,21625,21619,14532,21621,21614],"class_list":["post-45011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-lifeline-2","category-listenagain","tag-addressing-needs-of-community","tag-aontas","tag-community-education","tag-conor-thompson-project-manager-aontas","tag-education-system","tag-etb","tag-fet","tag-fetac-1-5-old-name-for-qqi","tag-ict-skills","tag-innovation-and-science","tag-jim-breslin-secretary-general-department-of-further-education","tag-kayla-dibble","tag-learners-as-leaders","tag-n","tag-one-step-up-campaign","tag-onestepup-ie","tag-qqi-level-5","tag-quality-qualifications-ireland","tag-recommendation-for-fet-centres-to-go-into-schools","tag-research-on-learning-experiences","tag-roscommon","tag-study-stress","tag-tus-college-mullingar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45120,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions\/45120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}