making it work: widening participation in higher education for adults in employment
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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/ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Making it work: Widening participation in higher education for adults in employment.
Kelly EdwardsKirsten Merrill-Glover
10th April 2014
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DEHOV http://ccl.southwales.ac.uk/dehov/ Elevate Cymru http://www.elevatecymru.co.uk/ University Heads of the Valleys Institute UHOVIhttp://www.uhovi.ac.uk/
Centre for Community Learning, Work-Based Learning Team
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Curriculum offers: Generic versus bespoke
What employers want: Training versus higher education
What employees want: Academic Skills Support; Flexibility
What Universities want: Retention & Attainment.
Stakeholder tensions
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In House
Course delivery in workplaces
Negotiated start & end dates Flexible contact hours On site tutorial support.
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.
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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’.
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.
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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.
Progression
Work-Based Learning Team
Continued development of flexible curriculum offers
Sustainability Progression routes Parity of widening
participation activity and opportunities.
