Extending Education Opportunities to
Community Education and Development

In 2005 the Scottish Funding Council awarded a Strategic Change Grant to the Scottish Community Learning and Development Work-Based and Part-Time Training Consortium. The Consortium set out to develop robust sustainable models of good practice, innovative advances in curriculum, community capacity building, lifelong learning, regeneration, social inclusion, social capital and community education widening access and articulation while developing constructive links between students, practitioners, employers, policy makers academics and researchers. In addition to the original projects the Consortium has two major initiatives working with Greater Glasgow CommUniversity and Black Ethnic Minorities Infrastructure in Scotland (BEMIS).