Progress with Essex Sample Clauses

Progress with Essex. We are currently redefining our progressive project, Progress with Essex, to ensure the project and our National Collaborative Outreach Project (NCOP, further detail below) progressive project work collaboratively and do not focus on the same students. The project will work with students from years 10 to 13 inclusive and university entry and transition. The selection of students for the scheme is based on POLAR3 data and academic ability, working with the schools involved to ensure effective targeting in order to maximise the impact of the project. The interventions students receive and participate in during the project are relative to their age and stage, and in some cases are opened up to a wider group of participants within the school/college. The progression project is evaluated using participant and teacher questionnaires, school data on participants’ progression and attainment, and tracking of participants’ access and progression to the University. Students’ progression is monitored using the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT). We have reflected within our targets our ambition to work with targeted white males from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. As all students on Progress with Essex come from schools with low socio-economic indicators, we are confident that by attracting white males to this project, we will engage this group. White males from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds have been specifically identified by OFFA within the access agreement guidance as least likely to enter higher education. This target is ambitious as males are generally not as receptive as females to taking part in outreach activity; however, we are confident the Outreach team can deliver the target within the specified timeframe.