Useful Links
- Action on Access (external link)
Action on Access is the national co-ordination team for widening participation in higher education.
- Aimhigher (external link)
Higher Education at UK Universities and Colleges of Further Education
- Aimhigher in the Southwest Gateway (external link)
Information for staff and students about Higher Education in the South West region.
- Aimhigher LIFE (Learning Is For Everyone) (external link)
LIFE (Learning is for Everyone) is the name of the Eastern Region of the Aim Higher: P4P Partnership in the South West. It delivers the Aim Higher Programme in Bournemouth Dorset, Poole, South Somerset and South Wiltshire.
- Aimhigher Peninsula - Learn and Work (external link)
Providing support and information for those involved in, or considering, vocational or work-based learning.
- Aimhigher West (external link)
Aimhigher West is one of the three Area Partnerships which make up Aimhigher SW. The Aimhigher West Partnership widens participation in Higher Education for Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Northern Somerset, South Glouce
- Apprenticeship Website (external link)
- Association of Colleges (AoC) (external link)
The Association of Colleges was created in 1996 as the single voice to promote the interests of further education colleges in England and Wales.
- Bournemouth Adult Learning (external link)
- Business Link (external link)
- Business Link Wessex (external link)
Resources and help for anyone starting, growing, managing a business in Dorset, Hampshire or the Isle of Wight.
- Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning (CRLL) (external link)
CRLL engages in a range of research and related activities to inform policy and provision in the field of lifelong learning in the post-compulsory sector in Scotland and beyond.
- Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) (external link)
- Connexions across Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (external link)
Connexions is an information, advice and support service for 13-19 year olds.With advice on choices in learning and work, education, jobs, training, money, leisure and volunteering.
- Connexions Cornwall and Devon (external link)
- Connexions Somerset (external link)
- Connexions Wiltshire and Swindon (external link)
- Continuum (external link)
Continuum is the centre for widening participation policy studies. It is the first research centre of its kind in the UK and is based at the University of East London.
- Creative Dorset (external link)
- Creative Steps (external link)
Promoting opportunities for progression through the creative arts.
- DEED (external link)
- Department for Employment and Learning (external link)
To promote learning and skills, to prepare people for work and to support the economy.
- Devon Rural Renaissance (external link)
Devon Renaissance is a not for profit partnership of the private sector, local authorities and community-based organisations. Funded primarily by the South West Regional Development Agency, the programme provides grant funding in order to help create
- FACE (The Forum for Access and Continuing Education) (external link)
- Foundation Degree Forward (fdf) (external link)
fdf’s primary objective is to support the development of high quality Foundation degrees. fdf works in partnership with all relevant agencies, institutions, organisations & interest groups to ensure that the development of Foundation degrees is drive
- Government Office for the South West (GOSW) (external link)
- Gr8 Choice (external link)
Information for School Students, covering the Devon, Cornwall and Somerset regions.
- HEFCE on Lifelong Learning Networks (external link)
- Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) (external link)
Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU), established to bring news and information about research and development in career-related learning and career guidance in Higher Education.
- Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (external link)
- Higher Education Regional Development Agency in the South West (HERDA-SW) (external link)
- Higher Skills (previously HLSPP) (external link)
HEFCE has invited HE institutions and their regional partners to undertake collaborative work to enhance the contribution of higher education to the skills agenda more broadly.
- Jobcentre Plus (external link)
- Joint Information Systems Committee (external link)
- Learndirect (external link)
- Learning and Skills Council (external link)
The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. The LSC is responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training for everyone in England other than those in universities.
- Learning Through Work (external link)
- Lifelong Learning Network National Forum (external link)
- Market and Coastal Towns Association (external link)
- National Database of Accredited Qualifications (external link)
- National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) (external link)
- National Lifelong Learning (external link)
Government-supported website for the encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning.
- Nextstep (external link)
- Nextstep Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (external link)
- Nextstep Cornwall, Devon and Somerset (external link)
- Nextstep Wiltshire and Swindon (external link)
- Occupational Standards (external link)
- Open College Network of the South West Region (OCNSWR) (external link)
- Public Sector Jobs (external link)
Offers jobs and vacancies from the majority of employers and recruitment agencies in the UK. Jobseekers can use our highly accurate search facilities to find jobs matching their crieria within a set radius of any town or city in the UK.
Jobssekers have the option to register and have their CV distributed to all major recruitment agencies and jobsites in the UK all through one form.
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) (external link)
- Sector Skills Councils - full list of all SSCs (external link)
- SEEC consortium for credit accumulation and transfer (external link)
- South West Observatory: Skills and Learning Intelligence Module (external link)
- South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) (external link)
- South West Regional Skills Partnership (external link)
The South West Regional Skills Partnership unites the entire business and learning community to create a demand-led approach to tackle the challenges and priorities of the South West skills base.
- St. Johns Ambulance (external link)
- Sure Start (external link)
- The Enterprise Pavilion (external link)
- The Genesis Centre (external link)
- The Higher Education Academy (external link)
- Third Sector Leadership Centre (external link)
The Third Sector Leadership Centre exists to ensure third sector leaders (charities, voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises) have access to the development and support they need to be effective leaders.
- Trade Union Congress (external link)
- Train to Gain (external link)
A new service designed to help businesses get the training they need to succeed. Train to Gain has been launched across England by the Learning and Skills Council. It can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that
- Training With Your Further Education College (external link)
Whether you are an Employer looking to improve your staff’s skill levels or an Employee looking to fulfil your potential, your local Further Education College can help you. For more information, please click on the relevant link below...
- UAce Work Based Learning Network (external link)
UAce work based learning network establishes and disseminates good practice in relation to development, facilitation, and assessment of work based learning.
- Unesco Courier (external link)
- Unistats (external link)
Compares unis and colleges in the UK
- Western Vocational Lifelong Learning Network (external link)
South West Lifelong Learning Network is not responsible for the content of external sites
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