CYTOG HUMAN FORMATION AND LEARNING

Faculty V · Education and Learning Sciences

Department of

Lifelong Learning

Complete Academic and Institutional Documentation Architecture

Academic Field: Lifelong Learning · Authority: Sibling Department, Faculty V · CYTOG HUMAN FORMATION AND LEARNING · July 2026

Section I

Documentation and Academic Structure of the Department

The Department of Lifelong Learning examines education as it continues across an entire adult life — returning learners, continuing education, and adult study undertaken alongside work, family, and other obligations that traditional-age education rarely has to accommodate.

Where every other Department of Faculty V has addressed education broadly, the Department of Lifelong Learning closes the Faculty’s founding architecture by addressing the learner who does not fit the traditional-age model at all — and the real risk that adult and continuing education programmes can exploit these learners’ circumstances or blame them for barriers the programme itself built in.

This document establishes the Department’s complete academic and institutional documentation architecture across seven structural layers, closing the founding architecture of Faculty V.

Field → Department → Programme → Curriculum → Module → Assessment → Research → Formation Practice → Award → Graduate

Stage One · Foundational Framework

Section II

Foundational Framework

Governing Field. Human Formation, examined through the discipline of Lifelong Learning — the systematic study of adult and continuing education, and the real constraints of work, family, and obligation that adult learners bring to their studies.

Central Premise. An adult returning to education is not a traditional-age student who happens to be older; they carry responsibilities and constraints a rigid, traditionally structured programme was never designed to accommodate. Where such a learner struggles or drops out, the honest first question is whether the programme’s design created the barrier, not whether the learner lacked commitment.

Foundational Theoretical Anchor. The Department operates under the Principle of Educational Equity and Intellectual Independence established by the Department of Education, and coordinates closely with the Department of Human Development (Faculty I, formation across the lifespan) and every other Department of Faculty V, applying their standards specifically to adult and continuing learners.

A LEARNER WHO STRUGGLES INSIDE A DESIGN BUILT FOR SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE IS NOT THE ONE WHO FAILED.

Stage Two · Programme List

Section III

Programme List

The Department offers a complete academic ladder from foundational study through doctoral research.

Certificate in Lifelong Learning

Diploma in Lifelong Learning

BA (Honours) Lifelong Learning

Postgraduate Certificate in Lifelong Learning

Postgraduate Diploma in Lifelong Learning

MA Lifelong Learning

MRes Lifelong Learning

MPhil Lifelong Learning

PhD Lifelong Learning

Professional Practice Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education Facilitation

Stage Three · Delivery Framework

Section IV

Delivery Framework

The Department is delivered online-first, using structured cohort-based study supported by Module Specifications, Study Guides, Teaching Manuals, and Assessment Briefs for every unit, consistent with the Institute’s established production standard.

Structured Instruction

Levels 4–5 establish foundational vocabulary and method in adult learning theory and continuing education design.

Scaffolded Independence

Levels 6–7 progressively require independent lifelong learning research under supervision.

Cohort-Based Study

Learners progress in structured cohorts, supporting collaborative critique of programme design against the real constraints of adult learners.

Distance and Blended Access

All programmes are available by distance, with flexible pacing options recognizing the schedules of working adult learners; the Professional Practice Certificate includes supervised practicum in adult and continuing education facilitation.

Stage Four · Curriculum

Section V

Curriculum

The BA (Honours) Lifelong Learning curriculum proceeds across four levels, numbered LL101 through LL111, following the Institute’s core pedagogical standard: scaffolded progression from structured instruction toward fully independent adult and continuing education practice.

Level	Focus	Modules
Level 4	Foundations of Lifelong Learning; the traditional–adult learner distinction; introduction to andragogy	LL101–LL104
Level 5	Continuing education programme design; barriers to adult study; ethics of flexible and non-exploitative design	LL105–LL107
Level 6	Independent lifelong learning research; capstone applied programme design study; specialization electives	LL108–LL109
Level 7 (MA)	Advanced lifelong learning theory; adult learning and Human Formation; research methods; dissertation	LL110–LL111

Key Pedagogical Standard. Every module moves the learner from structured instruction toward the independent capacity to design continuing education that genuinely accommodates working adult learners’ real constraints — no learner exits the programme designing a rigid structure and blaming the adult learner for the barrier it created.

Stage Five · Research Fields and Centres

Section VI

Research Fields and Centres

The Department maintains the following primary research fields:

Andragogy and Adult Learning Theory

Continuing Education Programme Design

Lifelong Learning and Human Development (joint with Faculty I)

Barriers to Adult Study and Completion

Comparative Lifelong Learning Systems Across Societies

Lifelong Learning and Vocation and Life Design (joint with Faculty VI)

Flexible and Non-Exploitative Programme Design

Lifelong Learning and Human Potential Studies (joint with Faculty I)

Centre for Lifelong Learning

The Department’s standing research centre, coordinating cross-domain research with the Department of Education, the Department of Human Development (Faculty I), and the Department of Vocation, Purpose and Life Design (Faculty VI).

Stage Six · Assessment and Ethics

Section VII

Assessment and Ethics

Assessment in the Department evaluates a learner’s competence in adult and continuing education programme design — never a reward for a rigid design that succeeds only for learners without significant outside obligations.

Because continuing education programmes have a documented history of financially exploiting non-traditional learners through predatory practices, the Department applies a dedicated integrity principle.

THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-EXPLOITATIVE ADULT EDUCATION: no programme designed, taught, or advised within this Department shall exploit an adult learner’s circumstances — financially, through misleading credential claims, or through rigid structures that ignore the learner’s genuine constraints. Where a working adult learner struggles, this Department first examines whether the programme’s design created the barrier before attributing the difficulty to the learner.

Stage Seven · Award Titles

Section VIII

Award Titles

Certificate in Lifelong Learning

II.

Diploma in Lifelong Learning

III.

BA (Honours) Lifelong Learning

IV.

Postgraduate Certificate in Lifelong Learning

Postgraduate Diploma in Lifelong Learning

VI.

MA Lifelong Learning

VII.

MRes Lifelong Learning

VIII.

MPhil Lifelong Learning

IX.

PhD Lifelong Learning

Professional Practice Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education Facilitation

Section IX

Public-Facing Department Page

The Department of Lifelong Learning is where the Institute studies education as it continues across an entire adult life — designed to genuinely accommodate the real constraints of work, family, and obligation, never to exploit them. As the Department that closes the founding architecture of Faculty V, it insists that a struggling adult learner is owed an honest look at whether the programme’s own design created the barrier.

Learners join a structured academic pathway from Certificate through PhD, moving from guided foundational study toward independent, genuinely accommodating programme design, supported at every level by the Institute’s full documentation standard: Module Specifications, Study Guides, Teaching Manuals, and Assessment Briefs.

Section X

Permanent Department Documentation Order

The permanent documentation order of the Department, restated for reference:

Foundational Framework

II.

Programme List

III.

Delivery Framework

IV.

Curriculum

Research Fields and Centres

VI.

Assessment and Ethics

VII.

Award Titles

Part Twelve · Delivery Framework Detail

A consolidated summary of all twelve programmes offered by the Department.

Award	Abbreviation	Duration	Credits	Tuition
Certificate in Lifelong Learning	CertLL	6–18 months	60 credits	₦450,000
Diploma in Lifelong Learning	DipLL	1–2 years	120 credits	₦850,000
BA Lifelong Learning	BA LL	3–5 years	360 credits	₦2,400,000
BA (Honours) Lifelong Learning	BA(Hons) LL	4–6 years	480 credits	₦3,100,000
Postgraduate Certificate in Lifelong Learning	PGCert LL	6–9 months	60 credits	₦900,000
Postgraduate Diploma in Lifelong Learning	PGDip LL	9–15 months	120 credits	₦1,600,000
MA Lifelong Learning	MA LL	1–3 years	180 credits	₦2,900,000
Specialized Master’s in Lifelong Learning	MA LL (Spec.)	1–3 years	180 credits	₦3,200,000
MRes Lifelong Learning	MRes LL	1–3 years	180 credits	₦3,400,000
MPhil Lifelong Learning	MPhil LL	2–4 years	240 credits	₦5,600,000
PhD Lifelong Learning	PhD LL	3–7 years	360 credits	₦9,100,000+
Professional Practice Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education Facilitation	PPC ACEF	6–9 months	60 credits (practice-based)	₦1,100,000

Section XXV

Credit Framework

The Department applies the Institute’s standard credit framework: one credit represents approximately 10 notional learning hours, inclusive of guided instruction, independent study, adult and continuing education practicum where applicable, and assessment, with extended completion windows available in recognition of adult learners’ real schedules.

Level	Credits (Full Level)	Notional Learning Hours
Level 4 (Certificate/Year 1)	120	1,200
Level 5 (Diploma/Year 2)	120	1,200
Level 6 (BA Year 3 / Honours Year)	120–240	1,200–2,400
Level 7 (Postgraduate/MA)	180	1,800
Level 8 (MPhil/PhD, research credit)	240–360	2,400–3,600

Section XXVI

Lifelong Learning Ethics Principle

Because continuing education programmes have a documented history of exploiting non-traditional learners’ circumstances, the Department’s ethical commitments govern every module, practicum, and research activity it authorizes, and close the ethics chain of Faculty V.

THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-EXPLOITATIVE ADULT EDUCATION (restated as governing Department ethic): an adult learner’s return to education is not an opportunity for a programme to extract fees disproportionate to genuine value, or to blame the learner for barriers the programme’s own rigidity created. This Department examines its own design honestly before it examines the learner.

This principle governs curriculum design, adult and continuing education practicum, assessment design, and all research conducted across the Department, and stands as the final entry alongside the Principle of Educational Equity and Intellectual Independence (Department of Education), the Principle of Learner Data Dignity (Department of Learning Sciences), the Principle of Curricular Transparency and Inclusion (Department of Curriculum Studies), the Principle of Non-Stigmatizing Educational Support (Department of Educational Psychology), the Principle of Valid and Equitable Assessment (Department of Assessment and Evaluation), the Principle of Pedagogical Restraint in Formation Teaching (Department of Human Formation Pedagogy), and the Principle of Universal Instructional Access (Department of Instructional Design) in the complete set of ethical protections held across Faculty V.

Section XXVII

Tuition Principle

Tuition for every programme is published in full above, with no undisclosed fees. Where a learner’s circumstances warrant it, the Department may offer needs-based tuition adjustment, cohort scholarships, or staged payment plans, at the discretion of the Institute’s admissions and finance offices.

Tuition figures reflect the Institute’s standard credit-based tuition model and are reviewed annually.

Section XXVIII

Final Delivery and Access Declaration

The Department of Lifelong Learning is delivered online-first to maximize access for learners regardless of geographic location, with structured cohort support, flexible pacing, complete documentation for every module, and a clear pathway from Certificate through PhD. No learner shall be required to relocate to access any taught programme offered by this Department.

Section XXIX

Final Structural Declaration

The Department of Lifelong Learning stands as the final founding Department of Faculty V, holding the Faculty’s commitment to education to the adult learner whose life was never built around a traditional academic calendar. Every award, module, and research activity documented above proceeds through the Department’s permanent structural chain:

Field → Department → Programme → Curriculum → Module → Assessment → Research → Formation Practice → Award → Graduate

This chain governs the Department of Lifelong Learning now and permanently, coordinated with, and answerable to, the Principle of Educational Equity and Intellectual Independence held by the Department of Education. With this Department, the complete founding architecture of Faculty V — eight Departments, eight ethics principles, one governing chain — stands documented in full.