Common use of Outreach Programme Clause in Contracts

Outreach Programme. The University invested in additional Outreach in 2011/12, following the demise of external funding, including from Aimhigher, allocating an extra £400,000 to normal baseline funding of £750,000. In 2012/13 we will maintain current expenditure and increase funding and delivery further. Delivery will be through a revised and refocused raising aspirations and progression programme as part of the University of the West of England Student Progression Framework. It will be based on refined targeting in line with this Agreement and with additional emphasis on outcomes. This will include tried and tested interventions including for curriculum support (master classes, revision and study skills, literacy and numeracy etc.), Information, advice and guidance, mentoring, tutoring, summer schools, Knowledge Exchange Networks, CPD for staff, special events and talks. The menu of activities will be offered to schools and colleges as an integrated Progression Programme. This approach will be trialled in 2011/12. A new UWE Compact Scheme will be developed for 2012/13 to replace the existing Heading Higher Passport Scheme. The new Scheme will be targeted at students from Low Participation Neighbourhoods in key partner target schools and colleges, and will include Access to HE Diploma students, Care leavers and Disabled students. It will be integrated with Outreach and the provision of bursaries. The criteria for the Scheme will enable the inclusion of contextual data in the admissions process to UWE. In addition, we will align the scheme with enhanced access to employers, for example the BBC Bristol Face to Face programme which supports progression into careers in the creative industries and media. This will include the provision of mentoring and internships. We will develop further links with employers, including through Business West. The scheme will include levels of entitlement for target students to activities which will be University based and also delivered in schools and colleges. As this is a new scheme, being launched at a time of significant contextual change, we will monitor closely its introduction. The Outreach Programme will include support for existing and additional Enhanced Partnerships with schools, as described in Section 6 above. This will support the achievement of targets and milestones identified in this Agreement. The Outreach Programme will also include further work through the UWE Federation of colleges, to consolidate and enhance current delivery, and to support the achievement of targets and milestones identified in this Agreement. See also Section 7 above. There will be additional investment in 2012/13 in research into and tracking of participants into and through the student life cycle at UWE (See 8.9 and 8.10 below). We will also review our monitoring and a range of qualitative and quantitative evaluation mechanisms. This will start through investment in and the introduction of a new CRM system for Outreach activity across the University in 2011/12. All of these developments will be used to demonstrate outcomes, refine targeting and inform planning for future Access Agreements.