Technology, and more recently, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, has prompted calls for an urgent need for adults to engage in lifelong learning and reskill to keep pace with technological advancements ​(Husomanovic, 2025)​.  For adults in the UK, the primary avenues used for reskilling are Further Education and Higher Education. In the 2023/24 academic year, Further Education had 3,110,815 participants and Higher Education had 2,991,100 participants ​(UK Government, 2025)​.  Both…