This special issue of the above journal will focus on research with the post-compulsory sector which has focused on progressing vocational learners into and through higher education and welcomes research based contributions within the following areas:

• The historical and wider context
• Different aspects of the Lifelong Learning Networks’ achievements
• Implications for practice and development in other contexts
• Good practice case studies
• Successes of Higher Education in Further Education Colleges
• Staff development
• Assessment methods
• Apprenticeships
• Sustaining, embedding and looking forward

For more detail, please go to http://www.lifelonglearningnetworks.org.uk/research-evaluation/call-for-papers/