About Lift OFF
LIFT OFF (Learning in Fife & Tayside, Opportunities for the Future) is the schools theme of the Fife and Tayside Wider Access Forum. We are a partnership of all the colleges and universities in the four regions we work with (Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perth & Kinross), as well as Careers Scotland, the Open University and the local authorities.
LIFT OFF Structure
The LIFT OFF team is based within Fife Council at the Auchterderran Centre in Cardenden. The team consists of a Development Worker, a Support Officer, a temporary Student Volunteer Co-coordinator and a Development Officer. The team reports to the Development Officer, who reports directly to the manager of the Forum and to the Management Group.
The Management Group meets three times a year (in January, May and October). It consists of members from each of the partner colleges and universities, the local authorities and Careers Scotland. There is also representation from the four Edinburgh universities. From October 2007, we hope to have student representation on the Management Group.
Activities
LIFT OFF runs a number of workshops in target schools that are aimed at increasing awareness in young people of the choices that are available through college and university. These are co-ordinated and delivered by the Development Worker with the help of Student Volunteers.
LIFT OFF to Success is our one-week residential programme designed to increase awareness of and aspiration to college and university. We are currently working on a number of ideas for new activities both within schools and elsewhere.
Watch this space for updates!
Materials
We produce a range of materials that are available to all 49 secondary schools across the four local authority regions. These will be published on our website soon - watch this space
Pupil Forum
LIFT OFF believes in listening to young people. Our Pupil Forum includes young people from target schools across the four regions we work in. The input from the initial meeting was extremely positive. The format of the pupil forum is set to change in the 07 / 08 academic year, to include more people and age groups from more schools. By doing this, we hope to get loads of ideas and suggestions about all of our activities – not just LO2S. . . . watch this space!
Student Volunteers
Our Student Volunteers are crucial to our work – not only in helping us to deliver activities, but also by becoming fully engaged with LIFT OFF and offering ideas and feedback.