Developing Higher Education in South Wales: The Emergence of the Universities Heads of the Valleys Institute

Danny Saunders, Helen Marshall, Francis Cowe, Robert Payne, Andrew Rogers

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    Abstract

    This case study outlines the emergence of a large higher education partnership in a sub-region of Wales which has for many years been associated with a low skills stereotype involving unemployment, poverty and deprivation. It contextualises the difficulties and challenges of 2008 – the time when the Universities Heads of the Valleys Institute (UHOVI) emerged as a viable programme for change with an ambition to recruit 1,663 local students by 2013. The case study reviews historical and contemporary developments, arguing that the people and places of the heads of the valleys cannot be written off or ghettoised; instead there is strength and potential through building lifelong learning communities that draw on economic, social and cultural practices.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)74-100
    JournalJournal of Adult and Continuing Education
    Volume19
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Keywords

    • community regeneration
    • widening participation
    • learning trajectories
    • partnership working
    • skills escalator

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