Common use of Outreach Activities Clause in Contracts

Outreach Activities. Non-residential summer school In partnership with Aimhigher Sussex, the University will host a non-residential Summer Screen Event for approximately 70 Year 9 students from schools across the West Sussex Region. There will be opportunities for students to take part in drama, and dance activities as well as having access to the media technology available to produce a DVD of the event. Working with staff and students from the University the school students will experience first hand what its like to be a University student. Cross curricular event for local schools The University will host a cross curricular activity for approximately 100 Year 7 pupils from 7 secondary schools in the local area. Some activities will take place in the schools facilitated by student ambassadors but the final showcase event will take place at the University. Mature Student Welcome Event Building on the successful pilot held in September 2007 attended by 30 new mature students, the University will host a Mature Student Welcome Day in September 2008 shortly before the start of their first year undergraduate programme. This event will provide the students with an opportunity to meet with other students and be reminded and reassured of the academic, pastoral and financial support available to all students. Feedback from this year‟s pilot suggests that students feel more confident about starting their course having met with other mature students in an informal yet informative event. One of the outcomes of this event was that those students attending expressed a wish for a follow up activity to be held possibly after Christmas. This will be more of a social event open to all Mature Students and will provide an opportunity to pick up any concerns the students have, thereby act as a retention aid Aspiration raising and HE awareness activities Following the completion of a mapping exercise, the Widening Participation staff working in collaboration University‟s Widening Participation Liaison Group (formed in 2007), the Schools Liaison Team and Aimhigher Sussex will identify non-Aimhigher schools in areas of low participation in HE (LPNs) and NS-SEC classes 4,5 6 and 7. The main geographical focus will fall within the coastal strip and within the University‟s „region‟. Campus visits and Taster sessions will be offered to these schools as well as visits into schools by WP staff and especially recruited and trained Student Ambassadors. A booklet give a Menu of activities will be produced by the WP team. Care Leavers Working with its HE partners in Sussex, the University of Chichester will seek to promote the opportunities of higher education with Local Authority departments which have responsibilities for working with „looked after children‟ and care leavers. Information regarding special bursaries, support with accommodation etc. will be made available to schools and colleges in at attempt raise the number of students leaving care and entering higher education. . The main vehicles for providing financial information to students will be the prospectus (available in January 2008 for a September 2008 start) the website (there will be a link from the University‟s homepage to pages on fees and bursaries) and the UCAS website. These three forms of communication are currently where the vast majority of prospective students look to obtain information on courses and about studying at Chichester generally. The University will inform any prospective student the aggregate amount of fees that they will be charged for the completion of their nominated course prior to them committing to undertake that course, as well as specifying the support available from the new bursary scheme. At institutional open days the University runs sessions under the title “Parents‟ Forum” where prospective students and their parents are informed of the net costs of studying. This presentation is augmented by an illustrative „fees and bursary‟ leaflet.

Outreach Activities. Non6.1 Leeds Trinity & All Saints has a strong track record of attracting under-residential summer school In partnership with represented groups into higher education and providing a supportive environment in which they are able to achieve successful outcomes, including progressing into employment. The College has been involved in a range of outreach activities in support of widening participation for many years. It is an active member of the West Yorkshire Aimhigher SussexPartnership and of Higher Education Awareness Raising West Yorkshire (HEARWY), and as such will continue to deliver a range of aspiration and attainment raising activities to young people from Year 6 to Year 13, and their advisors. 6.2 Work in the outreach programme includes: Annual programme of presentations and workshops for students and parents on applying to University, Finance, and University will host a nonlife Curriculum based progression pathways from local FE Colleges. Raising aspirations for those from low-residential Summer Screen Event participation areas, social backgrounds, or educational establishments (‘Fusion’) Annual Year 7 Passport to University day Annual programme of Aimhigher events for approximately 70 West Yorkshire schools and FE Colleges including Year 9 students from schools across the West Sussex Region. There will be opportunities and 10 Introduction to HE Days Annual Year 11 Aimhigher (HEFCE funded) Summer School Raising aspirations for students those not expecting to take part in drama, go to university Student Mentoring programme for Year 10/11 pupils Supporting mature learners into higher education Annual programme of presentations and dance activities as well as having access to the media technology available to produce a DVD of the eventworkshops for mature learners at regional FE Colleges; Open Days with specific content for mature learners; Teacher Training and Postgraduate Open Evenings for postgraduate and post-experience students. Working with staff HEARWY with Looked After Children Programme of support for children who are carers with Willow Project. 6.3 The Leeds Trinity & All Saints Strategic Plan 2007-12 continues the commitment to widening participation through partnerships that enable students to progress into and through higher education and be successful in the achievement of life and employment skills. 6.4 In planning a future programme of activities it is acknowledged that: • There is a pressing need to improve both the recruitment and retention of students from the University the school students will experience first hand what its like under-represented groups. • There is a need for widening participation activities to include some aspects of employer engagement, to enable more adults in work to enter higher education, and support successful progression into employment. • There is a need for WP activities to be guided by a University student. Cross curricular event for local schools The University will host a cross curricular activity for approximately 100 Year 7 pupils from 7 secondary schools much clearer technical definition of the target groups and to focus upon those in the local arealower SECs. Some activities will take place • Effective transition arrangements must be in the schools facilitated by student ambassadors but the final showcase event will take place at the University. Mature Student Welcome Event Building on the successful pilot held in September 2007 attended by 30 new mature studentsplace, the University will host a Mature Student Welcome Day in September 2008 shortly before the start of their including pre-entry preparation, induction and first year undergraduate programmesupport, especially for students who may be at risk. This event will provide the students • Closer links with an opportunity to meet with other students and be reminded and reassured of the academic, pastoral and financial support available to all students. Feedback from this year‟s pilot suggests that students feel more confident about starting their course having met with other mature students in an informal yet informative event. One of the outcomes of this event was that those students attending expressed a wish for a follow up activity to be held possibly after Christmas. This will be more of a social event open to all Mature Students and will provide an opportunity to pick up any concerns the students have, thereby act as a retention aid Aspiration raising and HE awareness activities Following the completion of a mapping exercise, the Widening Participation staff working in collaboration University‟s Widening Participation Liaison Group (formed in 2007), the Schools Liaison Team and Aimhigher Sussex will identify non-Aimhigher schools in areas of low participation in HE (LPNs) and NS-SEC classes 4,5 6 and 7. The main geographical focus will fall within the coastal strip and within the University‟s „region‟. Campus visits and Taster sessions will be offered to these schools as well as visits into schools by WP staff and especially recruited and trained Student Ambassadors. A booklet give a Menu of activities will be produced by the WP team. Care Leavers Working with its HE partners in Sussex, the University of Chichester will seek to promote the opportunities of higher education with Local Authority departments which have responsibilities for working with „looked after children‟ and care leavers. Information regarding special bursaries, support with accommodation etc. will be made available to schools and colleges will be developed, including with trusts and academies. • There is a need for a more personalised approach to the curriculum and to learning that reflects the increased diversity of students. 6.5 The aim of our forward plan will be to re-focus and better co-ordinate activities that address the institutional priority of recruiting and retaining students from groups that are under-represented in at attempt raise the number of students leaving care and entering higher education. . The main vehicles for providing financial information to students will be the prospectus (available in January 2008 for a September 2008 start) the website (there . 6.6 It will be a link from whole-College approach that will: • Establish educational partnerships and progression agreements with key partner schools, colleges and employers. • Clearly define and monitor the University‟s homepage to pages on fees and bursaries) and the UCAS website. These three forms of communication are currently where the vast majority of prospective students look to obtain information on courses and about studying at Chichester generally. The University will inform any prospective student the aggregate amount of fees that they will be charged for the completion of their nominated course prior to them committing to undertake that course, as well as specifying the support available from the new bursary scheme. At institutional open days the University runs sessions under the title “Parents‟ Forum” where prospective students and their parents are informed progress of the net costs WP target groups. • Target outreach work on the basis of studyingrecruiting and retaining students from these groups. This presentation is augmented by an illustrative „fees • Interact and bursary‟ leafletfurther develop projects with key agencies, including, AimHigher, the Lifelong Learning Network and HEFCE • Further develop the ‘Fusion Programme’’ as a holistic programme for students from pre-entry to the end of first year of the course. • Ensure personal support arrangements exist for students who may be at risk and monitor regularly • Engage academic and other departments to develop greater understanding of the needs of students from diverse backgrounds.

Outreach Activities. NonBrunel University has a strong reputation for widening access both within the sector and with its partners in both mainstream education and further education. The University has had a dedicated team since 2002 focussing on outreach, transition and retention and has achieved considerable success both directly with local Schools and Colleges in West London and through its award winning partnership programme with the London Borough of Hillingdon. Brunel also is recognised by Buttle UK for its efforts to encourage the entry of care- leavers into the University and its efforts to provide specialist support for this group. Our long term outreach strategy is based upon years of providing evolving forms of activity and targeting interventions on very specific cohorts to achieve objectives. Given the inexorable rise in requests from Schools and Colleges for IAG support we have found that focussing on establishments in receipt of the newly introduced “Pupil Premium” helps to more accurately target activity. A large percentage of our students are from WP backgrounds which is unusual for a research-residential intensive institution. Key activities undertaken annually include: HE awareness visits, master classes, subject taster days, IAG sessions and summer school In schools focusing on the 5 west London boroughs of ▇▇▇▇▇, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow and Hounslow - high priority schools/colleges and low participation neighbourhoodsfrom Year 5/6 upwards Events in partnership with Aimhigher Sussexlocal schools, FE colleges, HEIs, voluntary organizations, local authorities, regional or national progression projects Parents/carers annual event Campus visits for disabled students from local schools/colleges Annual pre-induction day for students with disabilities plus induction week programme Activities in schools, colleges, community settings etc to aid successful transition to HE of WP students LB Hillingdon Primary school campus visits and other awareness raising activities (12 annually) Bespoke activities for LB Hillingdon partnership Academies in low participation neighbourhoods (LPNs) – Harefield and Stockley All activities are fully evaluated through written feedback, focus groups and action research within a developing formal evaluation framework covering both the OFFA Access Agreement and the WPSS. However through membership of AccessHE, the University will host pan-London partnership body, we intend to start to use data tracking approaches to enable us to track the outcomes from our work regardless of whether student’s progress to Brunel in a non-residential Summer Screen Event for approximately 70 Year 9 powerful and holistic way. Each year 4,000 children attend aspirational events delivered by Brunel. It is our aim to maintain this level of performance in attracting students from schools such groups through continuation of our Outreach activities, although we will need to work hard to do so as the cohort may prove attractive to other institutions due to the volatile nature of the HE market currently. Detailed targetry for our Outreach activity can be found within our University Widening Participation Strategic Statement. Efforts to increase the number of mature students at Brunel suggest our proposed targets to increase the numbers from this group are unrealistic given the national impact of the new fees regime on part time, predominantly mature applicants and we have therefore revised them to focus on maintaining our mature student base. In our 2012 agreement we anticipated that we would explore the possibility of supporting a UTC in collaboration with the London Borough of Hillingdon as we recognise that there are many pathways into Higher Education. As a result we are the lead partner in the Heathrow Aviation UTC which will provide a range of pathways into engineering and other STEM subjects. The UTC will open in autumn 2014 and we plan to support the UTC with further targeted outreach activity. Brunel University strongly believes that a collaborative approach to outreach can bring a wider range of higher education opportunities to local students and as such we are founder members of AccessHE, a social enterprise developed within London’s HE sector formed from within the former Aimhigher partnerships of the capital. We believe that this collaboration complements our existing, and highly successful, outreach programme. AccessHE enables the development of new approaches and the sharing of best practice through specific forums. Brunel is already a participant in the LAC (Looked After Children and Care Leavers) Forum, Disability Forum, Student Ambassador Forum, Evidence and Evaluation Forum and Retention Forum. Membership also provides valuable data to enable the targeting of activity to monitor progress on access issues across London in a holistic way. Joint activities on IAG Information, Advice and Guidance and collaborations between Brunel and the West Sussex RegionRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal Veterinary College have already taken place. There We anticipate further collaboration to bring a broader perspective on HE to our local WP cohort. It is anticipated that we will be opportunities particularly active in the following areas of collaboration: Participation in outreach/learner events organised by AccessHE, London South Aimhigher and other WP groups Participation in a long term pan-London approach to assessing the impact of collaborative outreach activity through targeting specific individuals and monitoring progress longitudinally. Contribution to WP forums and conferences convened by AccessHE and other groups (focussing on care leavers, retention issues, disabled students and student ambassadors) Provision of Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) sessions in collaboration with partner ▇▇▇▇ Input into the London Access Data Service run by AccessHE for partner institutions to provide more accurate monitoring and tracking of WP students We are also members of NEON (National Education Opportunities Network) which is the professional organisation supporting those involved in widening access to take part higher education. NEON aims to enable those working to widen access to HE at all levels and in dramaall sectors to affect change in their own organisations and communities. NEON is based on a cross-sector, bottom up approach bringing together HEIs, schools, colleges, student unions, the voluntary sector, professional bodies and statutory stakeholders. The focus is on both how the progression to HE for under-represented communities and individuals can be increased and also how their success when they enter, progress through, and dance leave, HE can be ensured. We recognise that HEFCE and OFFA wish to see closer alignment between outreach activity funded through both channels and this agreement sees the concentration of traditional outreach activity through our WP strategy whilst OFFA funding is used to support collaborative approaches and the continued expansion of our current gifted and talented “Urban Scholars” programme, and its associated research programme, to focus on Hillingdon and other West London Schools which was funded from previous access agreements. Hillingdon has a long history of low participation and our work within the Borough is ongoing and welcomed by the local authority. Just as the focus of our outreach activity is predominantly funded from HEFCE grants our transition, retention and achievement activities as well as having access to the media technology available to produce a DVD of the event. Working with staff and students from the University the school students will experience first hand what its like to be a University student. Cross curricular event for local schools The University will host a cross curricular activity for approximately 100 Year 7 pupils from 7 secondary schools (student success) are funded in the local areamain from our OFFA Agreement. Some Brunel has operated a programme called “Headstart” for a number of years which aims to give students with little or no experience of Higher Education a clear insight into the level of work expected at University and the study skills required. We will use our additional fee income to continually increase the numbers of students taking advantage of this pre-sessional scheme which is delivered partly on line and partly through on site workshops. It is our experience that transition is critical in ensuring widening access students have a successful start at university and this contributes significantly to student success. Brunel’s success in attracting WP students requires a greater focus on activities to improve retention and achievement and therefore we anticipate this will take place in form a significant element of our OFFA Agreements for the schools facilitated by student ambassadors but the final showcase event will take place at the Universityforeseeable future. Mature Student Welcome Event Building on the successful pilot held in September 2007 attended by 30 new Data analysis has also shown that certain groups, including mature students, are less likely to achieve the University retention levels common to other cohorts. We will host a Mature Student Welcome Day continue to fund and develop pilot schemes within academic schools to examine how best to deliver an improvement in September 2008 shortly before retention amongst specified groups, including care-leavers, with the start aim of their first year undergraduate programmerolling out best practice. This event will provide the students with an opportunity to meet with other students and be reminded and reassured rolling programme of the academic, pastoral and financial support available to all students. Feedback from this year‟s pilot suggests that students feel more confident about starting their course having met with other mature students in an informal yet informative event. One of the outcomes of this event was that those students attending expressed a wish for a follow up activity to be held possibly after Christmas. This will be more of a social event open to all Mature Students and will provide an opportunity to pick up any concerns the students have, thereby act as a retention aid Aspiration raising and HE awareness activities Following the completion of a mapping exercise, the Widening Participation staff working in collaboration University‟s Widening Participation Liaison Group (formed in 2007), the Schools Liaison Team and Aimhigher Sussex will identify non-Aimhigher schools in areas of low participation in HE (LPNs) and NS-SEC classes 4,5 6 and 7. The main geographical focus will fall within the coastal strip and within the University‟s „region‟. Campus visits and Taster sessions will be offered to these schools as well as visits into schools by WP staff and especially recruited and trained Student Ambassadors. A booklet give a Menu of student success activities will be produced by the WP teamin addition to major pan-University retention programmes allied to our Learning and Teaching Strategy. Care Leavers Working with its HE partners in Sussex, the University of Chichester will seek to promote the opportunities of higher education with Local Authority departments which have responsibilities This Agreement also details our targets for working with „looked after children‟ and care leavers. Information regarding special bursaries, support with accommodation etc. will be made available to schools and colleges in at attempt raise the number retention of students leaving care for the future. Our analysis suggests that student success is improved where students take an industrial or other work related placement. As an institution Brunel University strongly believes in a student experience built upon the foundations of employer engagement and entering higher educationresearch–led teaching and has continued to provide placement options across its portfolio. However our research shows that students from Low participation neighbourhoods and mature students are less likely to take up this option. The main vehicles for providing financial information In order to improve take up of placements by under- represented groups we will provide a fee-waiver to students from such groups during the placement year. Where placements are unpaid, we will provide £1k to each student where applicable to ensure take up of this opportunity. We intend to focus on development of employability skills with new university wide initiatives scheduled to be piloted in 2013/14 with a full launch in 2014/15 as we recognise the prospectus (available in January 2008 importance for a September 2008 start) our students. We also intend to provide bursaries to around 20% of the website (there student population by 2016/17 to ensure students or recent graduates from under- represented groups are able to take up internships and therefore assist with entry into low mobility professions such as Law and Psychology. We will be a link from the University‟s homepage to pages on fees and bursaries) and the UCAS website. These three forms of communication are currently where the vast majority of prospective students look to obtain information on courses take steps to improve employability outcomes for our students and about studying at Chichester generallygraduates utilising a range of means, both financial and through providing additional skills activity. The University To encourage high performing students from under-represented groups to apply for, or transfer to, our four year integral undergraduate Masters degrees in Mathematics and Engineering we will inform any prospective student the aggregate amount offer successful candidates a fee waiver of fees that they will be charged £3k for the completion fourth year of their nominated course prior to them committing to undertake that course, as well as specifying the support available from the new bursary scheme. At institutional open days the University runs sessions under the title “Parents‟ Forum” where prospective students and their parents are informed of the net costs of studyingstudy. This presentation is augmented by an illustrative „fees reduces the cost to the national basic fee and bursary‟ leafletencourages such students to pursue excellence in STEM subjects.