Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 3 Issue 2

Guest editorial: UALL Conference 2012

Paul Gibbs, William R. Jones, Susan Oosthuizen

The aim of this paper is to present the second in an annual series of selected papers from the 2012 Conference of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL). The…

Working together: community and university partnerships

Yvonne Hillier

The purpose of this paper is to examine how government policy has encouraged universities and their community group partnerships to work together through the relationship between…

Creating a model for work‐based learning in a post industrial region

Kelly Edwards, Kirsten Merrill‐Glover, Robert Payne, Danny Saunders

The aim of this paper is to describe a successful strategy for a HE partnership engaging with businesses in a socially deprived area.

Widening access to HE‐family centred summer schools

Mark Richardson, Jayne Hunt

The Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning (CCLL) at the University of Wales, Newport has been offering a Summer School Scheme for community based students since August 2008…

Peer mentoring: enhancing social cohesion in Pakistani universities

Nosheen Rachel Naseem

University education in developing countries is often restricted to students from privileged backgrounds. However, in Pakistan, access to Higher Education, while competitive, is…

From individual choice to social good

Hazel R. Wright

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how individual choice, and the facilitation of individual choices, can be of benefit to society. To do this it selects evidence from a…