South and West London LLNs, Aimhigher (WECAN) London West, Central & North and Aimhigher London South and Kingston University have written a paper entitled ‘An All-Age Answer to Vocational Progression to Higher Education: the future role for Aimhigher and Lifelong Learning Networks’. To launch this paper an event is being held on Wednesday 13th October at the House of Lords. The event is sponsored by Kingston University and South London LLN will be opened by Sir Peter Scott, Vice Chancellor of Kingston University.

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The Western Vocational Lifelong Learning Network has been committed to supporting progression of Apprentices to higher education through its Apprenticeship progression agreements and development projects. One project has involved a study conducted across two further education colleges, aiming to improve methods used to offer apprentices information on progression opportunities to higher education...

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There is currently almost no Higher Apprenticeship provision across the PSC partnership , and all of our university partners are now selecting institutions rather than recruiting – so what chance of progression for apprentices here? Our view is that with the increasing competition for higher education level provision, apprentices need the services of LLNs more than ever. Consequently we have a full Action Plan of 17 areas of work for 2010/11, which ranges from the identification of target cohorts (including Level 3 students in colleges, employees in our universities and colleges, and employees in local authorities, the health service and construction) to employing an Apprentice Administrative Assistant ourselves...

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The West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN) has supported the delivery of the Get into Gear: Gender Equality Action Research Project, a project which has had a particular focus on equality and diversity, and has been led by the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC), Bradford College...

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In June the Lancashire LLN's web based searchable IAG tool, Visaroute was formally launched. Visaroute allows searches for progression within Lancashire in the LLN's six priority sectors...

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