Linking London. Middlesex has been a partner in the Linking London Lifelong Learning Partnership since its formation, and will maintain its involvement on a subscription basis. This partnership will continue to work with its University and College members to enhance and widen the opportunities for students, particularly those with vocational qualifications, to engage in Higher Education.
Linking London s core aims are to support recruitment, retention and progression into and through higher education for FT and PT students including those on higher apprenticeships and work based learning schemes. Social mobility and the pursuit of improvements in social justice through education are core principles underpinning this collaborative outreach work.
Linking London. Linking London is a partnership comprised of universities, colleges, sixth form colleges, schools, awarding bodies, jisc Regional Support Centre, the London Councils Young People's Education and Skills team and unionlearn. The partnerships aims to support recruitment, retention and progression into and through higher education, in all its variety, including full and part time, higher apprenticeships and work based learning and employment. Linking London partners have developed a collaborative information, advice and guidance offer, with relevant activities each term, including as drop in advice surgeries on supporting statements and finance, a calendar of partner activity and a range of topical road shows. These activities are delivered by Linking London partner universities working collaboratively together to provide impartial and up to date information and advice to college learners studying A-level, BTEC and Access to HE Diploma qualifications. Linking London and its partners are now a member of the National Networks for Collaborative Outreach (NNCO), one of thirty regional networks across the country, supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. This two-year project has as its aim the coverage of all further education and sixth form colleges in London, and the simplification of availability of information. BME outreach – an embedded approach through partnership Whilst a range of King’s College London’s widening participation schemes have high uptake by BME participants we are keen to further nuance our approach to increase the number of under-represented students (specifically, though not exclusively, African Caribbean students) applying for and gaining a place on programmes such as the Xxxxxx Trust Summer School. In order to achieve this in 2017-18 we will develop strategic partnerships with BME community organisations such as Xxxx Bursaries to raise awareness of widening participation activities. Furthermore we will host and facilitate partner organisations delivering widening participation or outreach activities that target students from ethnic minority backgrounds at King’s College London and engage with high profile BME-focussed media agencies such as Powerful Media. We will also seek to increase the number of BME teachers that engage with our teacher professional development offering by working with the Black Teachers Network. Supporting teachers and adviso...
Linking London. Birkbeck hosts the Linking London network, a unique network of twenty eight partners made up of universities, colleges, sixth form colleges, schools, awarding and professional bodies, Jisc Regional Support Centre, the London Councils Young People's Education and Skills team and unionlearn. The core aims of the partnership are to support recruitment, retention and progression into and through higher education. Through Linking London membership partners work both collaboratively and individually to maximise their contribution to targeted student engagement and achievement, social mobility and in pursuit of improvements in social justice through education. One of our initiatives with Linking London is to work in collaboration with other HEIs to deliver advice and information sessions to FE colleges and Sixth-Form Colleges in order to encourage successful applications from students with a variety of qualifications. We also work with Linking London to ensure that advisors within colleges and schools are aware of the full range of HE options so that they can communicate it effectively to the students they advise within their institutions.
Linking London. Linking London is a unique partnership of 39 partners made up of universities, colleges, sixth form colleges, schools, awarding bodies, jisc Regional Support Centre, the London Councils Young People's Education and Skills team and unionlearn. The network has been in existence since 2006. The core aims of our partnership are to support recruitment, retention and progression into and through higher education, in all its variety, including full and part time, higher apprenticeships and work based learning and employment. Through Linking London membership partners work both collaboratively, and individually, to maximise their contribution to targeted student engagement and achievement, social mobility and in pursuit of improvements in social justice through education.
Linking London. Linking London is a unique network of twenty eight partners made up of universities, colleges, sixth form colleges, schools, awarding and professional bodies, jisc Regional Support Centre, the London Councils Young People's Education and Skills team and unionlearn. The network has been in existence for over seven years and covers the geographic areas of central, south, east and north London, but also works collaboratively with others to ensure a Pan London overview and approach. The core aims of the partnership are to support recruitment, retention and progression into and through higher education. Through Linking London membership partners work both collaboratively, and individually, to maximise their contribution to targeted student engagement and achievement, social mobility and in pursuit of improvements in social justice through education. Please see the attached template for further details on SOAS’ engagement.
