Colleagues
Here at Coventry the Centre for Lifelong Learning has had a policy of
awarding a Cert Lifelong Learning for the accumulation of 30 credits
from our programme of short courses, most of which are HE level 1 and
worth 7.5 CAT points.
We have also offered a Diploma of Lifelong learning for 60 credits
accumulated from the same programme.
These steps, when added to the existing framework of awards, created a
Lifelong Learning Framework, which I have described at several
conferences and workshops over the last few years.
Critically we are now trying to ascertain whether the Diploma of
Lifelong Learning, which clearly sits outside the QAA Quals framework
since there is no need for any level 2 credit to be included in the
award, is something which others are doing, or even could do within
their own institutional academic regulations.
I would be grateful for any comments on this structure, and especially
for any examples of practice which we could use to cite as precedent.
If there is sufficuent interest, it may become a worthwhile argument for
the inclusion of these sort of Credit steps for widening participation
and fostering lifelong learning more widely across the sector.
best wishes
jeff braham
Coventry University Centre for Lifelong Learning
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