Most vocational courses offered by the Board are specially designed to meet the needs of particular professional groups. Short courses are held all year round and students may join them at any time. One and two year courses begin in September. What is on offer A wide range of courses is on offer to the Public including evening and day-time classes mainly in the liberal arts, taught at centres throughout East Anglia, usually meeting for two hours a week over ten or twenty weeks. A large range of evening courses are taught at the ACE Centre, Classics Faculty, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.
All courses carry higher education credits.
Certificate and Diploma courses are offered in over thirty subjects throughout East Anglia. Courses usually last one or two years and all are credit rated. Residential courses in a wide range of subjects are run every weekend at Madingley Hall, near Cambridge. Week long courses are offered in the summer as part of the Summer University and Master of Studies degrees in English Local History and Modern English Literature are offered on a part-time basis. Day-schools are held on Saturdays at a range of centres throughout East Anglia and Study Tours are available both in Britain and abroad on themes such as archaeology, architecture, art history and botany.