Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL), Mumbai was established on 15th February 2006, with the objective of providing training for adult learners in the areas of expertise in the Institute. The CLL was earlier known as Department of Extra-Mural Studies, which was established in 1981.

It caters to two kinds of adult learners:

• The Professional groups getting trained for their continuing education
• The general population from diverse backgrounds who are outside the formal education system or those who have not had the opportunity to access formal education system and want to access training or goal-oriented short-term vocational programmes

The CLL is part of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), Maharashtra, which has been set up to advocate for the implementation of policies and programmes formulated by the Central Government which remain on paper.

These policies include the National Policy on Older Persons (NPOP), 1999; Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007; and the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme, 2007.

Centre For Lifelong Learning's Collaborations: Since 2010, it has been a strategy of the Centre to offer courses in collaboration so as to reach out to a larger number of students across the country with quality programmes.

The partnerships have brought wide-ranging and varied benefits to both partners. These benefits include supporting curriculum development and enhancement and support to teaching and staff development as well as to skill development through practicums and field placements

Vision:

• By promoting the philosophy of lifelong learning, the CLL would maximise the capacities and potential of adult learners to contribute meaningfully as citizens to create a society that promotes and protects the values of dignity, equity, social justice and human rights

Mission:

• Through extension, training, teaching, and research, the Centre will
• Develop lifelong learning as a discipline of study and field of practice
• Engage with diverse populations of adult learners, irrespective of caste, gender, class, ability, and age

Objectives:

• To devise and implement relevant and need-based certified training programmes for a range of adult learners towards responsible citizenship
• To prepare and implement a comprehensive strategy for lifelong learning for the elderly and youth populations
• To integrate Information, Communication, Technology (ICT) in the teaching-learning processes
• Become a nodal centre in TISS for Distance Education and e-learning