The pie charts illustrate the proportion of learners in one adult learning facility signing up for a variety of classes provided in 1985 and this year.
Overall, while the number of students enrolling in cooking courses experienced an upward trend, the reverse was true for contemporary languages, musical awareness, and regional history courses, the last two of which completely disappeared. Instead, IT classes emerged and became the most popular choice of course. Culinary workshops and IT enjoyed more popularity over time. Only 14% of adult learners at the center showed an interest in acquiring cooking skills, but this was followed by a considerably rise to 19% until now, making it the second most preferable course. Yet, the biggest rise during the period has been observed in students wishing to learn IT, with the figure for these classes rising from 0% to a whopping 27% over the years. As a result, these classes replaced language-learning courses as the most indemand classes.
In contrast, understanding of music, community history and foreign languages lost its appeal. Language learning declined in popularity, with its figure falling significantly to just 17% during the period, up from almost one quarter in the first year. History and music lessons saw a significant decline in interest. Although 15% and 8% of adult students initially wanted to join these classes, today, no students are enrolled in them. Despite all these changes, fitness and dance maintained their status quo throughout the period. Twenty-two percent of the total number of students at the learning center participated in sports and dance in the first year, and this figure remains the same today.