STOPPING THE DECLINE


THROUGH FURTHER EDUCATION


Highlands College of Further and Higher Education is at the very centre of the Island’s community. Each year we provide education for over 700 school leavers, 900 adults on part-time work-based learning including apprenticeships, 200 higher education students, 2000 adults on leisure courses and 600 students on professional development programmes


By Lucy Fosse, Marketing and Communications Manager, Highlands College


values that are required in the 21st Century workplace.


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So we believe that we are uniquely positioned to observe, first-hand, the pool of talent and expertise that is provided by the more mature members of our society.


The World Health Organisation endorsed their Active Ageing Framework in 2002 which has been adopted by many countries and makes direct links between those that participate in learning with better overall wellbeing while ageing. This mirrors and potentially promotes a positive shift in social attitudes towards ageing: viewing later life not as a period of ‘deficits’, but rather as a time of ‘competency and knowledge’.


We know that people turn to education for different reasons, and at different times in their lives, so it is our ambition to meet those varied and individual needs. Across the ten degree subjects offered by University College Jersey, we receive a significant number of enquiries


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partnerships mean that we understand the knowledge, skills, attitudes and


and applications from mature students – in fact around 50% of all students enrolled on a degree with UCJ are in this category. Many enquiries are from people in their forties and fifties who are keen for a career change and feel that life has equipped them with the requisite skills and experience to make them ideal course applicants, particularly for degrees


like Social Work: we tend to agree.


Where once personal circumstances presented very real barriers to learning, now education is far more accessible. With financial support and part-time options available, we are welcoming more and more people back into education at Highlands. With age, often comes


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