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Widening Participation:
Lifelong Learning Perspectives
Tony Ellis
Lifelong Learning Centre
University of Leeds
“a broad view of widening participation encompassing a student’s entire lifecycle: preparing for and entering
higher education,
graduating successfully and
progressing to employment or postgraduate study”
Lifelong Learning
Challenges reductionist definitions of higher education
Who? – any age, background, individual/community
What? – learner-centred, personal/professional
How? multiple forms of institutional learning, learning from life
Equality and Diversity
Creative dynamic between
Lifelong learning as a right/inevitability
Customised strategies to address diversity
Lifelong Learning Centre
Adult Students
Foundation Year Students
Bespoke Programmes
Cross-University Service
Lifelong Learning Centre Partnerships
Responsiveness
Proactive support
Partnerships
Community / Employer
Long-term
Adding value
Realistic
Responsiveness
Curriculum design
Partnerships – students, employers
Accessibility
Proactive Support
Whole student life-cycle
In all aspects of the learner’s journey
