Director of Flexible Lifelong Learning

About Cardiff University

Flexible Lifelong Learning is a significant development for Cardiff University as we begin to deliver on our new strategy Our future, together.

The University has committed to establishing an Institute for Flexible Lifelong Learning that will bring together the knowledge and expertise in the University. It will support academic teams with the development and delivery of new and expanded flexible lifelong learning provision that will lead to diversifying and growing new income streams and widening the University’s offerings to a broader range of learners. Our future portfolio of flexible provision will be a highly attractive, compelling and professional offer to our customers and partners, and through new approaches and delivery models we will deliver a seamless experience for our flexible learners.

There will be consideration of new flexible master’s programmes, stackable microcredentials as well as non-accredited short courses that will complement campus- based programmes and Transnational Education developments. There will be a new drive to develop fully online provision – working in partnership with external organisations to tap into new markets, whilst also scaling up our in-person continuing professional development to individual learners and through new and expanded partnerships with industry and public sector organisations. These new agile offerings will better enable us to demonstrate the impact of our research and to capitalise on new income stream opportunities.