• Centre for Nursing Research
• Centre of Physical Activity Across the Lifespan (CoPAAL)
• Creative and Authentic Leadership
• Credo
• Early Christian Studies
• Golding Centre
• Institute of Child Protection Studies
• Lifelong Learning
  • Partners
  • Revitalisation
  • Infrastructure
  • Significance
• Mathematics and Literacy Education Research Flagship
• National Centre for Clinical Outcomes Research
• Plunkett Centre for Ethics
• Quality of Life and Social Justice
• SIMERR

The development of articulated pathways and partnerships

In the provision of lifelong learning, the relationships subsisting between universities, schools and other formal and informal educating agencies in the community need to be subject to review, particularly with regard to their increasing potential to interact easily and fruitfully and so enhance and multiply opportunities for lifelong learning.

From a lifelong learning perspective, the school, the community and the university must necessarily combine in a mutuality of benefit for individual cognitive advance, for economic development and for community welfare. This relationship cannot lie inert: it must be organic and dynamic.
 
In contributing to and expediting the development of this relationship, ACU National is able to actively promote the extension of flexible and interactive programs offering a range of activities for lifelong learning. ACU National is establishing and promoting many forms of interaction between schools, other educating agencies, community groups and the university in conceiving, developing and evaluating positive schemes of community service and development.

Relationships between universities and business, industry, and the professions are also of increasing importance in the realisation of lifelong learning for all.

ACU National is actively developing partnerships with a wide range of constituents in the community and exploring the impact of such relationships as regards the enhancement of lifelong learning, upon such important goals as

• Better and more effective preparation for the workforce
• Creating shared goals among educators and employers, and other professional, community and commercial interest groups and for influencing the provision of learning opportunities offered by business, industry, community and church groups and the professions.

These joint endeavours are being undertaken in a context of the expressed interest of all such groups in the formation of partnerships whose positive collaboration and effective working can function as a rich source of economic, individual and community development.