West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network
Institutions
University of Huddersfield (lead); Leeds Metropolitan University; University of Bradford; University of Leeds; The Open University; Leeds College of Music; Trinity and All Saints Higher Education College; Northern School of Contemporary Dance; Bradford College; Calderdale College; Greenhead 6th Form College; Huddersfield New College; Joseph Priestley College; Keighley College; Kirklees College; Leeds College of Art; Leeds College of Building; Leeds College of Technology; New College Pontefract; Notre Dame; Park Lane College; Shipley College; Thomas Danby College; Wakefield College.
Contact
Stephen Challenger, Director of West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3DH, e-mail s.challenger@hud.ac.uk, tel 01484 471104
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Award
£5.9 million
Period of funding
March 2007 - July 2010
Summary
The aim of the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network is to strengthen the performance of West Yorkshire businesses and the wider regional economy through improved vocational and work-based progression of young people and adults into higher education. By the end of the project the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network will have created:
- A sustainable higher-level skills partnership with increased levels of trust and more effective ways of joint working between providers, employers and stakeholders.
- A minimum of 25 Progression Agreements with clear articulation arrangements and a credit framework which crosses institutions and newly developed higher level skills curricula, enabling the progression of 3,000 vocational and work-based learners into higher education, resulting in a more highly qualified workforce.
- A recognised credit framework for vocational and work-based learners which is portable across institutions and recognises and values vocational and work-based learners.
- A minimum of three foundation degrees or equivalent per sector in areas relevant and important to employers and the economy.
- Stronger links between 1,000 businesses and Higher and Further Education and Work-based Learning providers with more relevant and responsive higher-level skills provision.
- More innovative and enterprising graduates and employees, with leadership and management skills, who are able to realise the new opportunities of the knowledge based economy.
- More transparent, accessible and recognisable information, advice and guidance systems for employers and vocational learners resulting in 7,500 learners and 1,000 employers benefiting.
- Better trained staff able to support progression within and between vocational and academic learning through the provision of 500 staff development opportunities.
Last updated 9 October 2009