Dr Stella Cottrell, Director for Lifelong Learning Symposium: Student Education Conference 3

Engaging Leeds: 10 January 2014

Lifelong Learning at Leeds is about...

•Creating opportunities so that people of any age are not bound for their lifetimes by the decisions and experiences of their past •Opening up the University, its knowledge and learning opportunities to wider audiences.

WP & diversity

Services

Integrated as ‘one stop’

Pre-entry services

LLC Provision

Non-credit bearing (NCB)

Outreach & public engagement

• Outreach to adults in the community• Support for partner organisations• ‘Spring into Summer’ 6 week-short

courses for the public• Seminar series for students, alumni,

employers and public• Adult Summer School and taster days• Arabic and Islamic Studies NCB short

courses in the community * Courses relevant to local people? * Degrees relevant to local people? * Student projects in the workplace

The Lifelong Learning Centre

An ‘ecology’ …

1.Sharing in community

2.Extending our reach as a university

3.Working in partnership

4.Supporting inclusion

5.Recruiting to courses

6.Mutual benefit

The Lifelong Learning Centre

Mutual benefit…

1.Outreach to adult learners helps raise motivation, aspiration, attainment

2.Participating partners/colleges gain

3.We form relationships with learners

4.That influences our provision – including support we provide

The Lifelong Learning Centre

Learning Champions

1.Share their experiences as mature students who have ‘lived the journey’

2.Meaningful and inspiring to others

3.Champions gain employability skills

4.Mature students more visible as part of the University

• The type of activity? Formal definition? Level of cost?

• More about culture, values, attitude and intent – the ethos brought to the activities and the spirit of mutuality, partnership and sharing