About the Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE)

There are persistent barriers obstructing people from disadvantaged backgrounds in accessing higher education and lifelong learning opportunities. This leads to entrenched inequality and exclusion to the detriment of individuals and wider society. It is our mission to face these barriers head on and dismantle them: supporting a socially inclusive framework for lifelong learning, challenging exclusion and championing equal access to higher education. We do this by connecting likeminded people so that they can come together as one to publish research, network, share best practice and effectively lobby those in power to bring about positive change. We were established in 1993 and have an administrative office at Anglia Ruskin University. We are made up of an executive and membership body.