the students widening participation forgot? continuing education and community engagement
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The Centre for Lifelong Learning’s programme of Continuing Education short courses, lectures and workshops are effective in attracting students from a range of backgrounds and including them within the University. Many of these individuals have a record of educational achievement; others have not.TRANSCRIPT
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The StudentsWidening Participation
Forgot?
Claire JonesCentre for Lifelong Learning
Continuing Education and Community Engagement
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“Elite universities 'fail to recruit poorest students’ ”(published 4 June 2012)
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• Share what Continuing Education is doing
• Describe some partnership initiatives
• Explore Continuing Education’s WP potential
• Reflections and questions
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‘Then I would have a reality check, of course I wouldn’t enrol. How could I. These kinds of courses weren’t meant for me…..’
‘I had left school at 16 with a few GCSEs … I hadn’t studied for over 20 years. I was too old. So how could I return to learning? What if I made a fool of myself? What if I couldn’t do it?’
‘At first I didn’t feel confident enough to complete assignments, but with the gentle encouragement of the lecturers I decided to put my knowledge to the test.’
‘Soon I found I was study 2 modules a week, one in Liverpool and one at Formby, Ormskirk or Southport. I suddnely found that I had obtained 120 credits and wanted to take things further’
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Continuing Education: Reflections and Questions:
•Non-school focused widening participation as well as community engagement•Non-threatening first step to a degree programme•Sometimes a substitute for a higher education denied earlier in life•Real benefits to individuals, their families and communities.•Mature, life-experienced people from a non-privileged background a great recruitment pool