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 "Generating employer responsive provision at higher education level" 

The Sussex Learning Network’s ‘Centre for Work and Learning’ project is working to support its partner institutions to build their capacity to deliver employer responsive higher education. 

It is doing this through:

• Exploring and testing new markets
• Creating and delivering courses which meet a direct business need for those in the workplace
• Transformational Change: building institutions which can respond to the needs of business

One of the key strands of SLN activity, the Centre for Work and Learning is a distinctive and innovative response to the challenge of workforce development. It is working to build a coherent approach to employer engagement that provides a shop-window for the higher education offer, a new and exciting way of delivering learning and a series of support services that underpin the whole package.

A key aspect of the Centre is the trialling of new, flexible modes of delivery of work-related higher education, and four universities and five colleges across Sussex are working together to contribute to the development of curriculum in response to the needs of local employers. Universities, colleges and employers are working together to explore innovative funding models for work-related higher education.

Please visit our policy and research context section for a fuller understanding of the wider issues that underpin our work.

To read about courses developed through the CWL partnership visit the course page on the CWL website

The Centre's aims

• to develop new provision to meet the needs of the workforce in Sussex and the South East
• to work with and through employers to build a curriculum that is both relevant and sustainable
• to deliver the new provision through co-funded Additional Student Numbers (ASNs) that will be supported by employer contributions
• to plan and deliver a programme of accredited staff development for all those involved in learning at work
• to maintain a research forum for workplace learning that is the basis for publication and sharing good practice
• to work alongside the SVPA Progression and Credit Service to develop new ways of accrediting workplace learning so that it supports progression into and through higher education.
• to promote the whole of this offer to employers, employees and brokers as part of the separately funded Learning Opportunities in the South East.

Our partners

The Centre for work and Learning is a partnership project comprised of the following Higher Education providers:

• University of Brighton
• University of Sussex
• University of Chichester
• The Open University in the South East
• Northbrook College
• Chichester College
• Sussex Downs College
• City College Brighton & Hove
• South Coast College Hastings

To read more about an organisation's plans for the Centre for Work and Learning please click the relevant list item to visit the relevant institution's page on the Centre for and Learning website