Driving Progress, Expanding Opportunity
Strategic partnerships, targeted projects, and practitioner resources supporting learners across Sussex to access higher education and achieve meaningful futures
The Sussex Learning Network is a strategic partnership of further education colleges, universities and community organisations. Through evidence-based collaborative interventions, we eliminate barriers to higher education for underrepresented learners across Sussex, creating equitable pathways that transform individual life chances and strengthen educational equity across the region. We do this through:
We work together to create a strategic approach to further education and economic growth across Sussex, as well as a wider range of opportunities for learners.
We develop, secure funding for and deliver a variety of innovative projects with the help of our training provider and career guidance partners.
We provide learning resources, such as our case studies and toolkits, and opportunities for career practitioners to upskill and share good practice.
We commission research on the local labour market, seek to influence government policy, and provide news and commentary on developments across the sector.
We coordinate regional widening participation efforts through our higher education and further education partners, delivering the Joint Regional Access Target to increase higher education progression among free school meals-eligible learners by 5% by 2029-30.
Through shared accountability and coordinated delivery across Sussex's educational ecosystem, we align collaborative efforts with regional priorities to deliver measurable outcomes for underrepresented learners. Read more about this work here.
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