Band 5+: The charts below show the percentage of students on an adult education center taking various courses offered in 1985 and this year. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts depict the proportion of students engaging several courses offered in 1985 and this year on an adult center.

Overall, while art, cookery, modern languages courses have seen a decrease in the number of learners, the fitness and dance students have remained unchanged. Moreover, after a period, music appreciation and local history course were deleted and replaced by IT course.

In 1985, modern languages were the most popular course with 24% of preference, followed by fitness and dance course with 22%. Furthermore, the number of students learning art were higher than that of local history, with 17% compared to 15%. Students engaging into cookery course (14%) were nearly two folds higher than those learnt music appreciation (8%).

This year, local history course and music appreciation were erased and IT course was added in order to replace them with 27% of preference. In addition, while the number of art learners have decreased over the period by 2%, the figure for cookery students have increased slightly by 4%. Finally, the number of fitness and dance learners have remained unchanged; meanwhile, that of modern languages have fall considerable by 7%.