Built Environment Lifelong Learning Challenging University Responses to Vocational Education

This report provides recommendations for the higher education institutions to become continuing education
centres while adequately responding to the labour market skills needs, based on a 28 month collaborative
research project, which was partly funded by European Commission under the ERASMUS multilateral
modernisation of higher education agenda.
The recommendations were made in order to enhance effective responses to industry requirements; facilitate
lifelong learning via through-life studentship; promote to adopt, diffuse and exploit latest learning and teaching
technologies and to encourage close collaboration between higher education institutions (HEIs), industries,
professional bodies and communities and policy level changes.