Useful Links
Here we list links to other websites that are related to Widening Participation or Continuum. If you want to suggest a link or if you want your organisation included on the list, please e-mail: Continuum
- Action on Access - an organisation funded by HEFCE and LSC to promote widening participation
- Aimhigher - information for young people and their parents and carers about Higher Education
- CERUK - a database of current or on-going research in education or related disciplines in the UK
- DCSF - the Department for Children, Schools and Families
- DELNI - the Department of Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland
- DIUS - the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, UK
- Durban University of Technology - partners in a British Council / DIUS funded EPA project
- The Education Trust - an independent organisation encouraging diversity in US universities
- ESCalate - the Education Subject Centre, aiming to advance learning and teaching in Education
- European Access Network - a European wide body promoting widening particpation, which links international and national organisations
- European Social Fund - The European Social Fund (ESF) aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union, and has funded a large amount of widening participation work
- EUCEN - the European Universities Continuing Education Network work on developing lifelong learning across Europe
- FACE - the Forum for Access and Continuing Education
- Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance - the lifelong learning network for Greater Manchester
- The Greater Merseyside and West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network - providing information on the work of this LLN
- HEFCE - the Higher Education Funding Council for England
- HEFCE Widening Participation - the widening participation section of HEFCE's website
- Higher Education Policy Institute - HEPI works to create policy informed by research on higher education both in the UK and overseas
- Higher Education Statistics Agency - HESA is a source of statistics on higher education in the UK
- Higher York - the York based lifelong learning network
- Include - Swedish network for HE providers
- Institute of Education, University of Stirling conducts research and provides courses related to widening participation and lifelong learning among other things
- Learning and Skills Council - the LSC controls funding and planning for all Further Education in the country
- Lifelong Learning Networks National Forum - for practitioners working in or with LLNs, providing information and details of forthcoming events
- London Thames Gateway Development Corporation - the LTGDP is the government agency responsible for delivering social and economic growth to the Thames Gateway region
- London Thames Gateway Forum - a community organisation providing people with a voice in the regeneration of the Thames Gateway region
- MOVE - Maximising Opportunities for Vocational Education, the lifelong learning network for the East of England
- NALN - the National Arts Learning Network, the lifelong learning network for the Arts nationally
- National Association for the Development of Education - an American organisation working to widen participation in the American higher education sector
- National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - NIACE is a non-governmental organisation working to advance the interests of adult learners and potential learners
- NIACE in Wales - NIACE Dysgu Cymru works specifically in Wales for issues relating to adult learners there
- Office For Fair Access - OFFA is an independent public body that ensures that there is fair access for all to higher education following the introduction of variable tuition fees
- Progress2Succeed - the website of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Lifelong Learning Network
- SISTER - Swedish Institute for Studies of Education and Research , one of Continuum's partner organisations
- Skills for Sustainable Communities - the lifelong learning network for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland
- South West Aimhigher - gateway for information on widening participation in the South West of England, including a practitioner's website
- SouthWestID - an expanding on-line library of information about South West England
- South West Lifelong Learning Network - SWLLN, the Lifelong Learning Network for the South West of England
- Sussex Learning Network - the lifelong learning network for Sussex
- Sussex Research on Widening Participation - a database of documents on widening participation
- Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education - NSHU, which aims to support and promote the development of higher education in Sweden, particularly relating to widening participation
- UCAS - the Universities Central Admissions Service
- Western Vocational Lifelong Learning Network - a lifelong learning network based in the Northern part of the Southwest of England
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