Collaborative Outreach. 3.11 Westminster is extending its collaborative access and outreach activities over the next three years. In partnership with HEFCE, Linking London and AccessHE through the National Networks for Collaborative Outreach a more targeted focus on ‘cold spots’ - those areas of lower participation with potential students with protected characteristics. The Westminster project will provide clearer line of sight information, advice and guidance on job types and sectors for employment for easy access by pupils, teachers and families. It will also draw on links with the Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Westminster University Technical College and its Employer Alliance as well as with other London universities sponsoring UTCs and Academies. Greater focus on primary schools is being directed through the appointment of new staff in the Outreach team.
Collaborative Outreach. 3.11 The University was the lead advocate with the Westminster Group of Associate Colleges in discussions with HEFCE for HND and Foundation Degree (FD) students progressing to Xxxxx 0 top-up to honours programmes to be excluded from the quota system. In 2012 HEFCE confirmed that direct entrants from these studies would not be included in Student Number Control (SNC) targets. This ensures parity with new fee regime entrants with high grades by ensuring parallel opportunity for study places with Level 4 entrants who have achieved AAB or ABB equivalence. This has facilitated collaborative planning for HND and FD within the Westminster Group, for 5 -10 students per annum to be offered guaranteed places on STEM courses subject to specified levels of achievement on entry to Xxxxx 0, and exit from Level 5. The progression agreement template initiated by Linking London provides the formal agreement by which these extended pathways will be administered and monitored. As HEFCE research has shown some 22% of young progressors to HE within FE Colleges were from low participation neighbourhoods in 2009-
Collaborative Outreach. 7.1 Leeds Trinity University is committed to the Higher Education Access Rewarding Transforming (HEART) partnership established by twelve HE providers in West Yorkshire (FE Colleges providing HE, HEIs and Universities) until December 2015. HEARTs mission remains to work in partnership to improve access to, and achievement in, Higher Education to enhance individual and economic development.
Collaborative Outreach working between HEIs Excellences Hub The University has committed to continued regional collaboration to maintain and further develop our successful Excellences Hub partnership between the Universities of Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York for gifted and talented young people to help enrich pupils’ experiences in school/college. This partnership has been widely viewed as the most successful of the Regional Hubs and the University was invited to advise the Department for Education and the Cabinet Office on policy in this area. It is coordinated from York and will continue to target high achieving students from currently under- represented groups from across the region to encourage and facilitate progression of the “most able, least likely” group of students to selective HEIs. A key aim of this work will be to encourage young people to consider entering selective HEIs and to better prepare them for study at a research intensive university. North Yorkshire Coast collaboration The Collaboration between the Universities of Hull, York and York St Xxxx has continued to work across the coastal area and expanded its programme to develop activities in all year groups of secondary schools and has started working with parents/ guardians of learners. The Coastal Collaboration is currently being coordinated by the University of Hull, however, moving forward the partnership will be developing provision into other areas of the North Yorkshire region led by York St Xxxx University to further deepen the Collaboration. In addition: The University is working with ‘NorthClass’ HEIs, as well as local councils, to assimilate good practice around the visibility of outreach to those from a care background. Individual University of Hull staff participate in NEON events to maximise opportunities for update and engagement with WP colleagues across the HE sector. The University of Hull will continue to collaborate with the Hull Children’s University to provide activities to primary pupils in schools located in neighbourhoods with significantly low participation.
Collaborative Outreach. Roehampton seeks to work collaboratively to deliver outreach activities wherever possible. We work with a range of organisations including Capital L, Aimhigher London South, the London Borough of Merton, and Putney High School. Examples of activities include:
Collaborative Outreach. Building on the commitment made in our 2012/13 Access Agreement, the University has agreed a range of additional activity that will be delivered in 2012/13 in collaboration with partner Universities to provide generic widening participation in higher education. These activities will be funded through the funding commitments included in the 2012/13 Agreement. They will be built on and further developed in 2013/14, subject to evaluation of their effectiveness. Please see Appendix B for detailed information. The University of the West of England Federation of Partner Colleges The University will continue to value collaboration with colleges through the work of the UWE Federation and with our Associated Faculty, Hartpury College. There have been significant changes for 2012/13, with Hartpury now responsible for its own Access Agreement, and a number of our colleges gaining student numbers under the 2011/12 bidding round. We will be exploring in 2012/13 how we can add value to and enhance our partnership work in particular with our core strategic partner colleges moving forward, and expect to implement development work in 2013/14. Our students in our partner colleges remain one of our priority groups for support under this Access Agreement.
Collaborative Outreach. The College works with the neighbouring FE Colleges who also offer College Based Higher Education to raise awareness and aspiration of non-traditional HE participants. There is an annual marketing campaign which aims to appeal to those who are having to question very carefully the cost of higher education, so the focus is on staying at home, studying locally and possibly part time. We have assumed that £5000 expenditure is aimed directly at non- traditional participants in HE. The College also works collaboratively with partner Universities. As the College FE population is the audience the Universities are trying to reach, all the local Universities offer to come in and give talks on finance, the application process and support for personal statements (University of Gloucestershire, UWE). Compact agreements are in place with several universities so that contextualised applications can be made to support an applicant who may not have the entry criteria for a particular course and has genuine reasons why but no further barriers to prevent successful study. The College is therefore involved in a great deal of collaborative work which is funded through the Access Agreement. Much may be being claimed by partner Universities but we see this aspect of our work as best practice in preparing all students with all the information they need for successful application and transition to HE.
Collaborative Outreach. The University has a number of collaborative partnerships which seek to widen participation. Though primarily with Higher and Further Education institutions, they also incorporate sponsorship of two Academies, and joint work with professional bodies to assist in the promotion of particular subject areas or expertise. Collaborative Outreach strategies include: o The Higher Education Business Partnership in the Tees Valley. The University’s long standing partnership with five Further Education colleges delivers Higher Education student numbers on each of the five campuses. This partnership sits at the heart of the University’s strategy for widening participation in the sub- region, with the key aims of widening access to higher education opportunities through joint work on raising aspirations, building confidence by creating visible HE centres in all partner colleges, providing programmes at locations in the Tees Valley which are accessible to a wide range of learners (in particular adults who wish to study part-time), creating a ladder of learning opportunities and facilitating flexible progression from FE to HE. Aims also include working innovatively with employers and their workforces to address the higher skills agenda, and creating a strong collective voice for higher education and training in the Tees Valley. The University has invested in the provision of a dedicated HE facility within each of the colleges. o Collaboration with North East Universities Northclass – a collaboration with Sunderland, Northumbria, Newcastle & Durham universities working with local authorities across the region to share information, provide information, advice and guidance within activities to support young people leaving care. o SUNEE – the North East Universities collaboration on Sporting activity, which includes Tees Valley Sport (an initiative to widen participation through the promotion of sport within Tees Valley schools and supporting talented young people via the Future Champions programme). o STEM Activities – The University participates in regional activity with the four regional universities to support awareness raising for STEM subjects and supports STEMNET activity delivered on the University campus. o Royal Institution of Mathematics – collaboration with the Institution and local secondary schools and academies to support gifted and talented pupils with an aptitude for Mathematics through the provision of Masterclasses. o Participation in a national network - ...
