UCD Access and Lifelong Learning works to engage and build relationships between communities that are ‘distant’ from higher education, and the University community. This is achieved by:
- Fostering access and participation through outreach initiatives and tailored supports for prospective, incoming, and current students. We are proud to support a diverse student body, including students with disabilities, mature students, part-time learners, and those from communities experiencing disadvantage. Currently 38% of undergraduate students are drawn from access cohorts, exceeding the University KPI of 35%.
- Expanding pathways to education by developing flexible and part-time lifelong learning programmes that offer accessible opportunities for our wider communities at all stages of life to engage with university learning.
- Embedding Universal Design across UCD, working collaboratively with staff and students to ensure that access and inclusion is everyone’s business.
