1. © University of South Wales Making it work: Widening participation in higher education for adults in employment. Kelly Edwards Kirsten Merrill-Glover 10 th April 2014

2. © University of South Wales  DEHOV http://ccl.southwales.ac.uk/dehov/http://ccl.southwales.ac.uk/dehov/  Elevate Cymru http://www.elevatecymru.co.uk/http://www.elevatecymru.co.uk/  University Heads of the Valleys Institute UHOVIhttp://www.uhovi.ac.uk/www.uhovi.ac.uk Centre for Community Learning, Work-Based Learning Team

3. © University of South Wales  Curriculum offers: Generic versus bespoke  What employers want: Training versus higher education  What employees want: Academic Skills Support; Flexibility  What Universities want: Retention & Attainment. Stakeholder tensions

4. © University of South Wales 4 In House  Course delivery in workplaces  Negotiated start & end dates  Flexible contact hours  On site tutorial support. Models of delivery Open  Local delivery venues  Fixed date delivery  Participants deriving from a broad range of businesses and organisations  Peer learning  Informal academic skills support.

5. © University of South Wales 5 Pedagogy  Applied Teaching & Learning strategies  Workplaces and practices used as vehicles for subject- specific learning  Embedding of study skills into module delivery  Peer support & learning  Informal tutorial support including online contact and weekly ‘IT café’. Pedagogy & Assessment Assessment  Learning outcomes are sufficiently broad so as to allow individuals to negotiate a project-based assignment which relates to their own working practices  Assessment strategies are typically accumulative and portfolio-based.

6. © University of South Wales 6 Work-Based Learners  Subsequent ESF supported courses  Engagement with other CCL provision  Foundation degrees within UHOVI or wider USW offer  Further graduate and post- graduate study outside USW. Progression Work-Based Learning Team  Continued development of flexible curriculum offers  Sustainability  Progression routes  Parity of widening participation activity and opportunities.

7. © University of South Wales ccl.southwales.ac.uk Kelly.Edwards@southwales.ac.uk Kirsten.merrill-glover@southwales.ac.uk 7