Learners
Whether you are in work or studying a vocational course, attaining a university-level qualification can boost your employability, chances of promotion and earnings. Increasing your career prospects also means you are more likely to gain more job satisfaction.
What Higher Education can do for you:
- Improve your career prospects and boost chances of promotion
- Help you achieve greater job satisfaction
- Give you greater choice about your own future
- Increase your earning potential
- Lead to a completely new career
- Offer learning that is interesting and fulfilling
Experience Counts
A lack of qualifications will not prevent you from entering HE. Your work experience can count towards your degree. Higher Education Institutions refer to this as Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning – APEL. Following this link for more information about Recognition of Prior Learning Outcomes.
Still unsure if higher education is for you? Then click here for our 'Benefits of Higher Education' document (pdf)
Access to Higher Education courses in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
This link takes you to a comprehensive list of Access courses available in the region.
Progression Agreements
Find out what a Progression Agreement is and how it can help you access Higher Education.
Are you ready to teach?
Are you a professional thinking of moving into teaching to pass on your skills?
If so, why not take our ‘Are you ready to teach?’ quiz. It's been designed as a quick guide to starting a teaching career and has some useful tips on what steps to take next.
There are two links to the same quiz. You will probably need to download adobe player for the first version, or you can use the plain text version instead.
Do the Quiz: Are you ready to teach? Everything you need to know about qualifications for teachers in the learning and skills sector
Do the Quiz: Are you ready to teach? - text version
Contact us
The purpose of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Lifelong Learning Network is to meet your Higher Education needs. To achieve this we need to hear from you about what those needs are. The HI-LLN will help to enhance your employment potential by developing work-related courses to advance your career progression.