Herts Learning Network is a partnership of Hertfordshire colleges and agencies, who are developing an ambitious project to widen participation in learning. Part of the ADAPT (European Social Fund) programme, it will support innovative strategies to modernise companies and their workers' skills during industrial change. The project is piloting locally the Government's Learning Flagship, the University for Industry.

This initiative is being supported by companies such as G Tech, FI Group, NTL and others. 400 small companies have signed up for IT training. The project has run 4 company-based courses and is piloting the learning centre approach. The project will be publicly launched in the winter this year.