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Alan Milburn’s presentation and his answers to questions caught the positive yet challenging tone of the summit and as last year received sustained applause. He stressed what he, as an independent Reviewer, and the Commission identified as crucial – for government; for universities; and for the various access and WP organisations attend that work in the sector. He was not shy about stressing the vigorous and active role that the Universities and HE sector had to play, stressing that they/it should not wait for government policy and support but should get on with what it knows works best. As elsewhere at the summit he reiterated the need for evidence of the effect and impact of the work we do and should be doing. He also strongly encouraged Higher Education Institutions to find ways to find ways to speak to government and media with one voice on widening participation and access issues. The discussion groups and afternoon gave delegates an interesting economic perspective and a wide debate to and with a strong panel of OFFA, the NUS, GuildHE and the Open University. The whole summit clearly reinforced the importance of the things we do that ensure that all those who wish to, should be enabled and supported to access and benefit from the higher education.

Presentations

UCAS Update: The 2012 Cycle Mary Curnock Cook, Chief Executive, UCAS

National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education Alastair Thomson, Principal Policy and Advocacy Officer, NIACE

Widening Access, Student Retention and Success National Programmes: Archive and Synthesis Dr Joan O’Mahony, Academic Development Officer, Higher Education Academy

John Jerrim, Lecturer in Economics in Education, Institute of Education, University of London: Socio-economic differences in higher education: how do we reduce the gaps?

Kath Dentith, Head of Access, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education: The Access to HE Diploma: the impact of ABB+ policy

Nadine Winskowski, Policy and Data Analyst, Universities UK: The widening participation dimension of admissions data this summer

Dan Shaffer, Senior Project Officer, SPA: How admissions can support widening participation activities

Programme

You will want to watch the videos below to hear what our keynote speakers said:
Chair’s Welcome and Presentation
Prof John Storan, Director, Action on Access

Rt Hon Alan Milburn, Independent Reviewer  on Social Mobility & Child Poverty speaking at the Action on Access HE Summit. 23rd October 2012. Part 1 of 4

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This issue features a major focus on the National HE STEM Programme

The agreements will give the opportunity to develop and expand on plans for collaborative outreach and, although not as clearly expressed, on student retention and success which will give practitioners an additional opportunity to highlight the access and participation priorities and practice both internally and externally to their institution.

We would encourage and advise practitioners to refer to the free resources on our Action on Access website (OFFA has indicated their usefulness by citing these in their guidance) as part of the preparation of institutional Access Agreements  – the ‘Higher Education Progression Framework’, the report ’Building Student engagement and belonging…’ (and Briefings) from the Paul Hamlyn Retention (What Works?) programme, our ‘Social Mobility through Briefings’ series, as well as our ‘Review of Widening Participation Strategic Assessments’ still useful though pre-Access Agreements.

In addition to these and the many other web-based resources available through the Action on Access web-site we can also provide direct to institutions a range of bespoke developmental services covering all aspects of the new Access Agreements Guidance. Through our extensive Associates network and long expertise we can provide the best consultancy and advice to inform your new access agreement. For information and initial advice contact Action on Access at contact@actiononacess.org .