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Introduction and Context. 1.1 The merger of Laban and Trinity College of Music on 1st August 2005 established Trinity Laban as the United Kingdom’s first dedicated conservatoire for music and dance. Trinity Laban provides specialist HE performance training to students aspiring to careers as performers, choreographers and composers across the broad range of professional opportunities open to musicians and dancers. Its combined student number is around 900 students of whom approximately two-thirds are undergraduates. 1.3 Building on the long-standing commitment of its legacy institutions to widening participation in professional performance training, Trinity Laban has adopted core aims: ▪ to promote and enable access to HE music and dance training for those with the potential to achieve successful careers as performing musicians, dancers, composers and choreographers, based on attention to individual student ambitions and aptitudes and a strong commitment to equality of opportunity; ▪ to facilitate progression, particularly from groups currently under-represented in HE performance training and employment, through: provision of its own pre-HE training for young people; structured links with FECs, local authority arts and education services; and extensive schools outreach and curricular support activity. 1.4 This access agreement, which covers all of Trinity Laban’s undergraduate degree programmes, sets out how variable fee income will be used to support these goals and to address financial hardship faced by individual students. Trinity Laban will make every practicable effort to ensure that no student is prevented from taking up a place or successfully completing his or her studies on grounds of financial need. 1.5 The agreement has been prepared to cover the period 1st August 2006 to 31st July 2011, but will be subject to annual review and may be amended in the light of ongoing performance against access targets. The current approved version will always be available via the institution’s website and other documents will refer readers to this source or to available hard copies.