University of Warwick Centre for Lifelong Learning

Boost Your Skills! 🌍

Join our Working in Multicultural Teams workshops this term — engaging, interactive sessions designed to enhance your teamwork skills and intercultural understanding. These workshops are open to all students in Applied Linguistics, Education Studies, CLL, and CTE.

📅 Multiple dates in February & March 2025
📍 Various locations on campus
🎓 Earn 1 Warwick Award point!

Spaces are limited—please register now via myAdvantage!
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The School of Education, Learning, and Communication Sciences (SELCS) is offering exciting volunteering opportunities this term for students in Applied Linguistics, Education Studies, and the Centre for Lifelong Learning.

Bring your passion for education, language and child/family dynamics to support your local community. Whether it’s reading with children, providing 1:1 mentoring, or helping with after-school activities, your unique student perspective can make a real impact.

By volunteering, you’ll gain valuable professional experience, build connections with educational professionals, and develop essential employability skills — all while making a difference!

✨ Flexible commitment options are available — one-off or regular —whatever works for you.
📆 Complete the expression of interest form by midnight on Wednesday 22 January 2025.

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

🔗Find out more and apply now: https://buff.ly/3PCHD3v

Doing research on your degree for the first time may be daunting to start with, but many found the journey rewarding, relevant and worthwhile.

Our research module has received many positive feedback from students --

"I have enjoyed exploring and researching my own independent topic of interest. I have enjoyed making the presentation, as I feel like it has eased the daunting dissertation and has set a plan to form the basis of my chosen research. I will be referring back to this PowerPoint throughout."

"It has been an interesting module that we have been able to process lots of learning in small chunks and really understand it."

"I have thoroughly enjoyed the relaxed approach and mixed delivery of face to face and online lectures."

What is your degree research about? Did you discover an use for your research?

Do you know that we offer a postgraduate-level Higher Apprenticeship in Career Development Professional?

77% of Warwick apprentices choose a degree apprenticeship over a traditional degree or a professional training out of financial considerations and the opportunity to gain practical work experience whilst studying. Other benefits include:

💼 Integration of work and study through 20% off-the-job academic study and 80% on-the-job practice setting
💷Tuition fees covered by employer
🤗 Supported by course tutor, workplace line manager and other mentors
📐 Course designed using the QAA professional framework

Come and find out for yourself on 7 January 12noon by signing up to our Online Info session with course director Lynne Campbell now: https://buff.ly/3P21d98

Inequality has been a concern among counsellors and therapists as the effects of inequality mean that mental health professionals frequently work to comprehend and address its impact on clients.

Listen to course director Cathryn MacLeod discuss how our part-time Counselling and the Psychotherapeutic Relationship degree can provide you with the expertise and abilities to make equality the cornerstone of your counselling practice:

Part-time degree in Counselling and the Psychotherapeutic Relationship Hear from Cathryn MacLeod about the part-time degree, including its unique strengths, emphasis on equalities and who the course is designed for.

Introduce counselling into your life and incorporate understanding of psychodynamic and cognitive behaviours and listening skills into your professional and personal life.

Our 10-week short course Introduction to Counselling has been a popular choice for anyone looking to explore counselling skills. Study in January in-person or online if you apply now:
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Clarity, purpose, empowerment, and strategic planning are just a few of the advantages individuals gain from coaching. Many organizations and industries are embracing as a strategy to strengthen their , , and , and many people are incorporating coaching techniques into their lives as well.

Explore the opportunity to develop coaching skills and advance your professional growth in 2025 with our stackable part-time qualifications in Coaching.

Attend an online information session with course director Ian Day in January: https://buff.ly/3ZtuP5m

Child and family students - you would have received or will soon receive a about your application experience. Participants will be entered into a prize draw of a £40 national book token on 31 December, just in time for cozy reading season and your new year’s reading plans!

Zara is one of our first students on the part-time degree in Child and Family Mental Health. She joined the course with excitement and motivation to help make a difference to Children in Need and their families, but she's also well prepared with a beautiful set up at home for her blended learning. 😮

We love seeing beautiful natural light in a study space!

Read Zara's story: https://buff.ly/40TolNV

What is the most helpful careers advice you have ever received? 🤔

Both coaching and working as a student ambassador are crucial people-skill powered work that ask you to be able to listen, to inspire, encourage, and work with others to them.

Therefore, it is no coincidence that our Coaching graduate Divya Shah became a student ambassador with us. In this blog article, Divya reflects on her path where she started with feeling lost, self-less being a family carer for years so she started her self discovery and independency through work, and that's where she discovered coaching as something she enjoys doing.

"Coaching transformed my life. I spotted and took promotions at work, my relationship with my teenage kids and husband improved. The course had a practical element of coaching clients. Clients were gaining confidence, stepping into meaningful work and finding joy in their life experiences partnering with me as a coach. They identified new perspectives of their troubled life and took progressive actions. "

Read Divya's full story on https://buff.ly/3Amf3zr

Week four already? 😮

Last week, we met our postgraduate career students and saw their teamwork on defining .

Interested in joining as a paid student ambassador? Email [email protected]. 🙌

Ever wanted to take on some local work when you can alongside your part-time studies? May we tempt you with the opportunity to work for your department Centre for Lifelong Learning as a part-time Student Ambassador? Benefits include:

🤸‍♂️ Receive training on event stall holding and practise stall holding and using social media
🙌 Work when you can with minimal commitment
🤝 Network with other local organisations and independent businesses at events and festivals
🎓 Promote lifelong learning and help local residents access Higher Education
🗺 Make new friends and explore new festivals and events including Godiva Festival, Warwick campus open days, and local libraries and galleries

Hear from Jon Winfield, our experienced student ambassador about why he chose to work with us as a student ambassador: https://buff.ly/3YoRspO

Apply now by emailing [email protected]

One of our best tips to stay motivated, warm and connected for you this winter is to dive into learning. 🔥

Our 10-week short course Induction to Counselling is open for applications now. Starting online or in-person in January 2025, this programme is packed with knowledge and group practice opportunities for you to understand the basics of counselling as a useful people skill, reflect on your listening skills and experiences, as well as offer an opportunity to see if it is a field you would like to develop further in.

Successful completion of the course will guarantee you an interview on our part-time BA Counselling and the Psychotherapeutic Relationship, and can support your application for our part-time MSc Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Apply now: https://buff.ly/3wXOpLe

Part-time studies bring some unique challenges and advantages – for some, it could be exactly what they needed in order to fulfil career progression or transition without stop working or waiting for the autumn academic term.

Do you know that we have a suite of stackable postgraduate courses in career studies, career education and coaching that has April and September starts every year? We’re opening for April 2025 starts now so make sure you browse our course and find out if it is a good option for you to make use of:

Career Studies and Coaching - Professional Development Our established Career Studies and Coaching Faculty combines a growing team of knowledgeable and experienced academic staff. We all bring highly relevant career development experience from a range of contexts, including international consultancies, recruitment companies, human resources functions, h...

“It’s something I do day to day through my career for 20 years now, but I feel like maybe I wanted to validate my experience on one hand, on the other hand I also wanted to learn some new skills.”

Meet our part-time Coaching students Rehan and Sarah, who decided to do something for their personal and professional growth and have been enjoying the benefit of working while studying with the support from their employers and tutors:

Studying as a HR Director - Meet our postgraduate Coaching students Don't hear from us, hear from our students! Meet Rehan and Sarah, who are currently studying our postgraduate Coaching programmes at Centre for Lilfelong Lea...