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Latest News
National Audit Office Report into Widening Participation in HE
HESA 2006/07 Performance Indicators released
Access drive is having a 'real impact', says minister
Latest Event14-19 Diplomas: Supporting Widening Participation or just another Qualification?
Optimising Recruitment: Targeting and Recruiting Disabled Students
Optimising Recruitment: Targeting and Recruiting Disabled Students
2008 Aimhigher in LIFE National Conference - Tackling the targeting issue:
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Disability Events News Resources Aimhigher
Action on Access is the national co-ordination team for widening participation in higher education, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Northern Ireland's Department for Employment and Learning. The team work with institutions and partnerships, including Aimhigher, providing advice, information and support to their widening participation activities, strategies and plans.
If you have any information you would like us to include on our website please email info@actiononaccess.org
What's new
- New Arrangements for Student Finance Delivery in England. Skill and NADP have produced this briefing to update their members on the new arrangements for the delivery of student finance in England, which includes the arrangements for processing Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs).
- Action on Access July eBulletin
- National Audit Office Report into Widening Participation in Higher Education.
- Gender Gaps in Higher Education Participation - An analysis of the Relationship between Prior Attainment and Young Participation by Gender, Socio-Economic Class and Ethnicity. (DIUS Research Report)
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Action on Access June eBulletin Focusing on WP Activities with Boys
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The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) have published their HE performance indicators for 2006/07. In relation to Widening Participation, undergraduate entry from the state school sector, from non-professional backgrounds (NS-SEC 4-7) and from low participation neighbourhoods have all shown small increases in the last year. More details, including institutional level breakdowns, can be accessed via the HESA website.
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Latest Disability Equality Partnership Bulletin May 2008 Word PDF
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DIUS National Student Forum: summary of feedback from student juries re disabled students
- Action on Access May eBulletin Featuring a discussion on the language of widening participation.
- Please visit our new Network Meetings pages launched on the Action on Access website. Here you will find: A summary of the meetings which took place in March/April 2008, examples of Practice, an overview of sector developments and implications for disabled learners and related documents/links.
- New campaign to help hard working parents prepare their children for University. DIUS News Release
- The Aimhigher project in Suffolk has produced a leaflet 'Support and Route to Higher education for SPLD students' targeting students with disabilities or learning differences. This route map is intended to provide an approximate guide to what you need to do and when to ensure any support is in place as early as possible.
- Issues and FAQs raised by summer school feedback to the HEFCE position paper on the future of summer schools
- Action on Access April eBulletin Focusing on engagement with schools.
- Boost for University fundraising as Denham announces details of £200 Million match funding scheme. DIUS Press Release
- The Government has launched the 14-19 Qualification Strategy Consultation.
- Research on the impact of Summer schools. The Sutton Trust introduced summer schools to the UK over ten years ago, and since that time over 6,000 students have attended Sutton Trust summer schools. The Ten Year Review examines the impact of the summer schools.
- Funding for widening participation Press reports today suggest there are some misunderstandings of the purpose of HEFCE’s funding for widening participation.
- HEFCE widening participation and fair access research strategy: 2008 update
- Recognition and Support for Widening Participation Practitioners. A scoping study by Continuum commissioned by the Higher Education Academy.
- Boys into HE Repository of Good Practice
- A report into student retention by the Public Accounts committee.
Last updated: 01-07-2008 at 12:15