Please find featured below and attached a document from the University Alliance on Lifelong Learning: Ladder and Lifeline, which has recently been published. Our Chair, Peter Neil, suggests you will find this of interest.
With best wishes,

Lucy

From the foreward...

In a world of fast-paced change with breakthroughs in machine learning, mass communications and robotics dramatically changing the way we live and work, everyone agrees that lifelong learning is important.
 
But enabling it is complex – encompassing a range of issues and policy areas including education and skills, work and pensions, and public health. As a result, and despite considerable good will, few practical policies have been introduced. It is time to change that. Lifelong learning should play a central role in achieving government priorities around productivity, place and social mobility.

As a mission group that represents universities, our starting point has been to think about how universities, within a wider system, can play their part. Of course, they are only one piece of the jigsaw – but they are an essential piece if we are to ensure that the possibility of progression to the highest levels of study is built into every learning pathway. This already exists for those taking the academic route. With the increase in degree apprenticeships and professional doctorates, it must be built into vocational pathways too.
 
 Professor John Latham
 Vice Chancellor
 Coventry University
 Chair, University Alliance