Targeting. Taking into account the end of the Aimhigher programme, we will continue to target activity on students from the most disadvantaged areas with the lowest rates of progression to higher education. Subject to agreement with the local authorities, we will identify cohorts of learners from lower socio economic backgrounds or other groups that are under represented in higher education, such as students with disabilities. We will focus our additional outreach activity on these target groups, providing the most intense interventions, such as summer schools and mentoring, to those with the greatest need. We will implement initiatives that have a specific focus on raising attainment, such as the highly successful „Raising the Grade’ maths conference, hosted at NTU but delivered by Aimhigher Nottinghamshire for the past two years. This 5-day programme will engage up to 350 targeted students from 20 schools and colleges with the aim of helping them to achieve maths GCSE at grade C. We will develop additional opportunities to support successful transition from FE to HE: taster sessions, study skills workshops and a reciprocal shadowing scheme for teachers and lecturers.
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