Homeless charity Crisis is launching a new centre aimed at getting people off the streets and into education.
The new Crisis Learning Zone, at its offices in Shoreditch, east London, offers homeless people free courses.
Crisis says there is an appalling lack of services for homeless people, who can find mainstream education services inflexible and difficult to use.
Courses offered range from "life skills" to IT skills in hi-tech and interactive "learning labs".
Crisis chief executive Shaks Ghosh will be joined by Baroness Blackstone at the official opening on Tuesday.
She said: "Homelessness is a de-skilling and isolating experience.
"There is an appalling lack of facilities offering the support and training which homeless people need to help them back into education and subsequent employment.
"Government should invest in learning programmes that cater to homeless people's needs and enable them to escape homelessness for good."
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