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Making it work: Widening participation in higher education for adults in employment.

Making it work: Widening participation in higher education for adults in employment. Kelly Edwards Kirsten Merrill-Glover 10 th April 2014. Centre for Community Learning, Work-Based Learning Team. DEHOV http://ccl.southwales.ac.uk/dehov/ Elevate Cymru http://www.elevatecymru.co.uk/

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Making it work: Widening participation in higher education for adults in employment.

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  1. Making it work: Widening participation in higher education for adults in employment. Kelly Edwards Kirsten Merrill-Glover 10th April 2014

  2. Centre for Community Learning, Work-Based Learning Team • DEHOV http://ccl.southwales.ac.uk/dehov/ • Elevate Cymruhttp://www.elevatecymru.co.uk/ • University Heads of the Valleys Institute UHOVIhttp://www.uhovi.ac.uk/

  3. Stakeholder tensions • Curriculum offers: Generic versus bespoke • What employers want: Training versus higher education • What employees want: Academic Skills Support; Flexibility • What Universities want: Retention & Attainment.

  4. Models of delivery • Open • Local delivery venues • Fixed date delivery • Participants deriving from a broad range of businesses and organisations • Peer learning • Informal academic skills support. • In House • Course delivery in workplaces • Negotiated start & end dates • Flexible contact hours • On site tutorial support.

  5. Pedagogy & Assessment • Assessment • Learning outcomes are sufficiently broad so as to allow individuals to negotiate a project-based assignment which relates to their own working practices • Assessment strategies are typically accumulative and portfolio-based. • Pedagogy • Applied Teaching & Learning strategies • Workplaces and practices used as vehicles for subject-specific learning • Embedding of study skills into module delivery • Peer support & learning • Informal tutorial support including online contact and weekly ‘IT café’.

  6. Progression • Work-Based Learning Team • Continued development of flexible curriculum offers • Sustainability • Progression routes • Parity of widening participation activity and opportunities. • Work-Based Learners • Subsequent ESF supported courses • Engagement with other CCL provision • Foundation degrees within UHOVI or wider USW offer • Further graduate and post-graduate study outside USW.

  7. ccl.southwales.ac.uk Kelly.Edwards@southwales.ac.uk Kirsten.merrill-glover@southwales.ac.uk

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