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The Social Role of Higher Education Elaine Knight

The Social Role of Higher Education Elaine Knight Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning (“CCLL”) School of Humanities and Lifelong Learning Faculty of Education and Social Sciences University of Wales Newport. Presentation. CCLL involvement with post 16s

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The Social Role of Higher Education Elaine Knight

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  1. The Social Role of Higher Education Elaine Knight Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning (“CCLL”) School of Humanities and Lifelong Learning Faculty of Education and Social Sciences University of Wales Newport

  2. Presentation • CCLL involvement with post 16s • Benefits of Level 4 Modules to post 16s • Potential progression opportunities • Barriers to learning • Windows of opportunity (funding and vehicle) • New curriculum • Potential and outcomes • Wider approach - expectations • Further windows of opportunity/ Project • The Social role of Higher Education

  3. Past 4 years • Flexible progression routes • young people into • and through H.E • Through Level 4 bite size modules • Historically A Level students • Extra curricular activity • UWN/CCLL highly successful track record working with 17-18s

  4. Benefits of Level 4 credits University experience 10 credits CV/UCAS Level 4 Modules Transferable skills University readiness Maximising the chances of successful learner outcome (WAG 2009)

  5. Potential progression opportunities Horizontal: Cert H.E. x 2 Undergraduate Programmes Progression Foundation Degree Employment

  6. dominated by the more “gifted and talented” (DoE 2005); and a number of forces create “situational barriers” (Calder 1993) for those students who are NOT. encouraging the students not involved to participate seems futile/ encouraging those that will, increases their existing heavy workload

  7. Instead of tying to corral the young people into undertaking H.E. Level 4 CCLL looked at how the UWN/CCLL could get involved with them.

  8. Window of opportunity Funding by HLF WHS Blaenavon, S.E. Wales UWN involvement

  9. Vehicle of WBQ An exciting qualification delivered by educational institutions across Wales (meeting 14-19 Agenda of Wales). Offered at three levels CCLL focused on advanced level (17-18) A Levels Wales Europe and the World

  10. CCLL designed new curriculum • An innovative, flexible and diverse inter-disciplinary Level 4 module • Induction for the module in UWN theatre • over 12 weeks X 2 hrs. twilight/timetable/permutations • Mirroring many of the LOs of WBQ • Potential to complement existing studies (A levels) • Heritage route but potential to use discipline specific to mirror LOs of the WBQ • While sustaining “employability” as a key • Through soft transferable skills; and • Signposting to alternative careers

  11. Introduced students to new areas of study/Research

  12. Potential and outcomes • One Local Authority Area (Newport) overwhelming – potentially 1,000 students. • September 2011 piloted to 3 FEIs – Advanced level WBQ/A level students. • 46 A level students went through March exam board with H.E. credits. • Currently delivering the module via Advanced WBQ/A level students to one school in a different local authority.

  13. Intermediate WBQ – BTEC students • Pilot starts 2nd April – 30 students • Induction NOT at UWN • Delivered to fit in with existing 2 week timetable in school time. • These students (non-traditional H.E. learners) will be engaging in H.E. (by stealth?) • Widens access and progression; • removes the more traditional barrier to learning; while • Sustaining “employability” as a key through • Soft transferable skills and signposting to careers

  14. Expectations • 10 credit Level 4 module BUT Opportunity 5 H.E. (WBQ assessment) • Confidence / retention? • Raise aspirations/motivation • Again, “signpost” to other career options/embed employability skills. • Research outputs will be: •  Impact of H.E. on non-traditional H.E. young learners • The role of heritage and heritage management in post 16 education • Future funding opportunities from L & T • Future external funding.

  15. A further “window of opportunity”/ project…..

  16. Whilst young people in S.E. Wales might initially struggle to understand the relevance of “heritage” related subjects to their lives….

  17. A further project….. . . .it is an opportunity to develop an understanding of: their past/present locally, regionally, globally and . . .

  18. … how their future changing environment will shape and influence their place in the global world in 21st Century ...have the opportunity to make an impact on the their life chances • In short ….

  19. Widening access is about increasing opportunities for people from a diverse range of backgrounds to benefit from higher education (HE). . . to improve access to higher education for those with the potential to benefit from it. . . hefcw encourage Welsh higher education institutions to draw students of all ages from all sections of the community. http://www.hefcw.ac.uk/policy_access/widening_access.aspx - 16/03/2012

  20. This is the Social Role of Higher Education

  21. Elaine.Knight2@newport.ac.uk Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning School of Humanities and Lifelong Learning Faculty of Education and Social Sciences University of Wales, Newport CanolfanDysguCymunedol a GydolOes Pennaeth yr YsgolDdyniaethau a DysguGydolOes Y GyfadranAddysg a GwyddorauCymdeithasol PrifysgolCymru, Casnewydd

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