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Learning Destinations

CU Learning Destinations are places and orgnaisations which provide high quality learning opportunities and activities known as CU Learning Activities.

There are two types of CU Learning Destinations and, as long as the proposed learning activitiy connects with study you can undertake at a university, it can be considered as either a Public Learning Destination or a Restricted Learning Destination. 

Public Learning Destinations are places which provide CU Learning Activites and which are publicly accessible, places which include wildlife centres, zoos, histoiral interest sites, theatres and libraries. 

We have an ever-increasing number of Public Learning Destinations across the UK and intenaionally to which children can travel with their Passport to Learning. 

Restricted Learning Destinations are places which are not publicly accesible and include school-based Learning Activities, Uniformed Organisations, and clubs which require local membership. 

Alongside these more traditional learning opportunities, Restricted CU Learning Activities can also be found in the workplace, and are organised by local CU centres, working with hospitals, hotels and newspaper offices as examples. 

To find out more about your local CU Learning Destinations you can use our online search tool here.

How can your organisation become a Learning Destination?

In becoming a CU Learning Destination all organisations are asked to undertake our quality assurance process, known as CU Validation. 

Planning for Learning sets out a process of self-evaluation and planning as we must be sure that there is a consistency of quality to the Learning Activities that our CU Learners participate in.

CU Validation does not require the completion of an excessive amount of paperwork and works best when time is set aside to talk about potential learning opportunities and to explore them through the eyes of the children they are designed to engage, being confident that wherever a CU Learner chooses to access a CU Learning Activity that their experience is a positive one and that the learning is engaging, creative and fun!

It is important to note that CU Validation assures the quality of the learning opportunities offered.

Matters of Health and Safety, Public Liability and Safeguarding remain the responsibility of the learning provider. All Public Learning Destinations are expected to operate to their statutory requirements in these areas and to declare that they do so.

CU Learning Destination status tells children that a visit to your organisation will provide them with good quality learning.

Our experience has shown that, becoming a CU Learning Destination encourages first time visits for many children and their families who go on to return. More visits for you, more stamps for the Passport to Learning.

Once confirmed as a CU Learning Destination we ask that you display our Learning Destination logo prominently inside and outside of your learning environment so that it is clearly visible to visitors and children who may wish to use their Passport to Learning.

Many of our Learning Destination partners display our Learning Destination plaque (available to purchase at a cost) to promote their status as a Learning Destination. For those who do not wish to purchase a plaque we can supply, without charge, window stickers and posters.

Your CU Learning Destination status will also give you access to our nationally recognised Learning Destination logo for use and we would encourage you to display the Learning Destination logo on all literature and letter headed paper and to display our logo on your website and social media sites linking directly to the Children’s University website too.

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