Realising Opportunities Sample Clauses

Realising Opportunities. The University is a member of Realising Opportunities (RO), a unique collaboration of twelve research intensive universities3 working together to promote fair access and social mobility of students from under-represented groups. The Realising Opportunities programme provides support for students through interventions designed to raise aspirations and enable them to demonstrate their potential for success at a research intensive university. These interventions are offered both at their local participating university, and nationally, so that the student can tailor the programme to meet their own needs and interests. The programme includes a national conference which is a compulsory element for all participating students. Each student is supported through the programme by a student ementor. The mentor, an undergraduate student from one of the twelve universities, provides ongoing support and encouragement. Successful completion of RO, which includes a robust academic element, will lead to students receiving an alternative offer through UCAS from the University of Essex. The RO Strategy Group has unanimously agreed that the twelve participating institutions will each commit £35,000 to the scheme in 2012-13. This commitment will ensure that the momentum of the programme is maintained, will enable the recruitment of a third cohort of students, and will build up the evidence base for evaluating the impact of the project
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Realising Opportunities. The University of York is a member of Realising Opportunities (RO), a unique collaboration of 12 research-intensive universities working together to promote fair access and social mobility of students from under-represented groups. RO provides support for students through interventions designed to raise aspirations and enable them to demonstrate their potential for success at a research intensive university. These interventions are offered both at their local participating university, and nationally, so that the student can tailor the programme to meet their own needs and interests. The programme includes a national conference which is a compulsory element for all participating students. Each student is supported through the programme by a student e-mentor. The e- mentor, an undergraduate student from one of the 12 universities, provides ongoing support and encouragement. Successful completion of RO, which includes a robust academic element, will lead to students receiving an alternative offer through UCAS from the University of York. The RO Strategy Group has unanimously agreed that the 12 participating institutions have committed to fund the scheme in 2012-13. This commitment will ensure that the momentum of the programme is maintained, will enable the recruitment of a third cohort of students, and will build up the evidence base for evaluating the impact of the project. Through these programmes, the University of York makes a significant contribution to widening the participation of underrepresented groups in higher education.
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Realising Opportunities. In addition to our own post-16 programmes, we will continue to work in partnership to deliver the Realising Opportunities initiative. The award-winning programme, developed through shared best practice, provides support for students through interventions designed to raise aspirations, develop skills and enable them to demonstrate their potential to succeed at a research intensive university. These interventions are offered locally and nationally and include a National Student Conference, ongoing support and encouragement from a trained student e-mentor and an assessed academic element. Successful completion will result in additional consideration given to applications through UCAS from all partner universities, and the potential for an alternative offer worth up to 40 UCAS points.
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Realising Opportunities. The University of York is a member of Realising Opportunities (RO), a unique collaboration of 12 research-intensive universities working together to promote fair access and social mobility of students from under-represented groups. The Partnership was awarded the Times Higher Education Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2012 in recognition of their leading work in this area. RO provides support for students through interventions designed to raise aspirations and enable them to demonstrate their potential for success at a research intensive university. These interventions are offered both at their local participating university, and nationally, so that the student can tailor the programme to meet their own needs and interests. The programme includes a national conference which is a compulsory element for all participating students. Each student is supported through the programme by a student e-mentor. The e-mentor, an undergraduate student from one of the 12 universities, provides ongoing support and encouragement. Successful completion of RO, which includes a robust academic element, will lead to students receiving an alternative offer through UCAS from the University of York. The 12 participating universities in the Realising Opportunities Partnership have unanimously agreed to commit to future funding, continuation of the programme, and the development of a Business Plan which will ensure the on-going development of the programme to 2016. Each of the 12 universities has agreed a financial contribution of £35,000 to support delivery in 2012 -13. Through these programmes, the University of York makes a significant contribution to widening the participation of underrepresented groups in higher education. Higher York Higher York is a partnership between Xxxxxx Xxxxx College, the City of York Council, the University of York, York College and York St Xxxx University. Xxxxxx College is an associate member. The partners fund a small central team to oversee a range of partnership activities. These activities include: The Progression to HE Forum is chaired by the Widening Participation Manager at the University of York and involves key strategic stakeholders (the guidance community, schools, colleges, Learning City York, North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership). Through this Forum the partners are able to share and disseminate information on the latest developments regarding access and progression to and through HE at their institution to key...
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Realising Opportunities.  Newcastle University is the lead University for the Realising Opportunities Programme, in collaboration with the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, involving a core group of 12 research- intensive HEIs. The project has received HEFCE funding for the pilot phase (to 2012) and seeks to address the particular challenge of encouraging students of high ability, but from WP backgrounds (i.e. the ‘most able, least likely’), to progress to selective, research-intensive universities best suited to their abilities and potential. This is a high-profile fair access project, which will be nationally-available once fully developed (from 2012 entry), and has the potential to encourage and facilitate greater geographical mobility and access to the professions for students from under-represented groups. Subject to successful pilot developments and the availability of longer-term resources, it is anticipated that this project may be included in Newcastle University’s access commitments in due course, and that specific milestones and targets may be included in the Access Agreement from 2012 entry.
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Realising Opportunities. The University of Sussex is a member of Realising Opportunities (RO), a unique collaborative partnership of research intensive universities developing and delivering a national fair access scheme which promotes social and geographic mobility for students from under-represented groups. RO has a robust evaluation framework which incorporates contextual data, student aspirations and the longitudinal tracking of students through the HEAT database and UCAS. The award-winning Realising Opportunities programme, developed through shared best practice, provides support for students through interventions designed to raise aspirations, develop skills and enable them to demonstrate their potential to succeed at a research intensive university. These interventions are offered locally and nationally and include a National Student Conference, ongoing support and encouragement from a trained student e-mentor and an assessed academic element. Successful completion of RO will result in additional consideration given to applications through UCAS from all partner universities, and the potential for an alternative offer worth up to 40 UCAS points. Each participating institution has committed future funds to ensure the on-going delivery of RO to 31 July 2019. For 2017 – 2018 this will be a maximum of £37,000 per partner. In October 2015, UCAS undertook analysis of applicant data for RO students. The results demonstrated that RO is robust in its dual targeting of high attaining students from disadvantaged backgrounds; provided evidence of elevated application, offer and entry rates for RO students applying to HE against a UCAS-identified control group; highlighted that RO seems to ‘neutralise’ background differences across the different measures of disadvantage, and suggests that RO participants are more successful at getting offers from research intensive universities. Our work with Realising Opportunities is a major component in our work with the most able but least likely students to attend a research intensive university.
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  • Business Opportunities Executive agrees, while he is employed by the Company, to offer or otherwise make known or available to it, as directed by the Board of Directors of the Company and without additional compensation or consideration, any business prospects, contracts or other business opportunities that Executive may discover, find, develop or otherwise have available to Executive in the Company’s general industry and further agrees that any such prospects, contacts or other business opportunities shall be the property of the Company.

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  • EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The Personnel Department will mail to the Association copies of all recruitment bulletins. Tentative examination bulletins approved by the Head of the Examining Division of the Personnel Department will be mailed two (2) calendar days prior to the date that said bulletins are scheduled to be approved by the Civil Service Commission.

  • Equal Opportunities To ensure that all volunteers are dealt with in accordance with our equal opportunities policy, a copy of which is set out in the Volunteers Handbook.

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  • Interviewing Opportunity A representative of the Union or Xxxxxxx shall be given an opportunity to interview each new Employee within regular working hours, without loss of pay, for a maximum of thirty (30) minutes during the first month of employment for the purpose of acquainting the new Employee with the benefits and duties of Union membership and its responsibilities and obligations to the Employer and the Union.

  • Equal Employment Opportunities 10.2.1 The parties are committed to the principle of implementation of equality of employment opportunity. All terms and conditions of employment are to be implemented on that basis and in particular noting the requirements of sections 597 and 600 Education and Training Act 2020.

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