The Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE) facilitates the exchange and dissemination of information and practices in lifelong learning and widening participation to higher education. By promoting collaboration and innovation between providers and practitioners, FACE aims to support and encourage a socially inclusive framework for lifelong learning, challenging exclusion and fostering full participation. As a large multi-sector network we play a key role as a pressure group, service provider, staff development forum, national policy shaper, information service and event organiser. FACE membership has grown rapidly over the years reflecting the changing boundaries of lifelong learning practices in HE and beyond. It has developed into the largest network of its type in Europe with growing national and international partnership arrangements. In turn, the FACE annual conference have become a major event in the higher education diary, bringing together practitioners, senior managers, policy makers, researchers and many others concerned with lifelong learning and access to HE.

Recent Blog
By FACE  /  January 28, 2023
Context   In a previous post, I considered the reasons level 3 students at a further education (FE) college in...
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By FACE  /  January 28, 2023
The advice monsters   I’m going to start by telling you a truth that you may be a little uncomfortable...
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By FACE  /  December 14, 2022
Our work with under-represented groups at the University of Hertfordshire is founded on a personalised, student-centred approach which recognises and...
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By FACE  /  December 14, 2022
‘Critical thinking.’ Two significant buzzwords in the Higher and Further Education sector, but are we paying enough attention to them?...
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By FACE  /  November 20, 2022
At the end of October 2022 the Understanding Widening Participation in Northern Ireland (NI) report was published.  Authored by CFE...
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By FACE  /  November 20, 2022
Nowadays the concept of a traditional student is changing, slowly. While the majority of students entering higher education are 18-19...
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By FACE  /  November 20, 2022
At a recent university community open event I met a spritely octogenarian who was filled with curiosity about the new...
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By FACE  /  October 21, 2022
At the time of writing this the shortest serving Prime Minister in our history has just resigned from office, there...
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By FACE  /  October 17, 2022
  Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and support to those...
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