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Widening Access to Higher Education for Students from Economically Disadvantaged Backgrounds : What Works and Why?
... educational access gap associated with economic disadvantage in ...the access policy is free tuition for all Scottish domiciled students attending a Scottish ...on Widening Access (CoWA), ...
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Student-led widening access schemes
... its work, having featured in “British Medical Association widening access to medicine guide,” and was nominated for society of the year at the UK Medical Student Association Conference 2011. As president ...
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Widening access to higher education: admissions (SPICe Briefing; 11/07)
... to Widening Access to Higher Education that is believed to have an impact on participation in HE is the admissions processes of Higher Education Institutions ...on widening participation, and that ...
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Higher education, widening access and market failure: towards a dual pricing mechanism in England
... Ultimately the idea of price competition is extremely risky for a lower prestige provider as it is easier to be competed against on price than on status and reputation, and as such a price war could drive prices down ...
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Speech: Shirley-Anne Somerville: Widening access to higher education: 30 May 2017
... We have introduced statutory access agreements and have invested £128 million in widening access and articulation places over the last four years. This year we also introduced 40 new places through ...
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Mentoring into higher education : a useful addition to the landscape of widening access to higher education?
... At first glance the evidence from this study aligns with the wider, largely international literature on mentoring. While operating in a different cultural context to much of the US based research, the study also points ...
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Widening Access to Postgraduate Study and the Professions: : Technical Supplement to the Understanding the Student strand report
... GCE A-levels or Scottish SQC Higher or Advanced Higher levels Open University OU credits International Baccalaureate IB diploma or certificate Mature student admitted on basis of previou[r] ...
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Widening Access to Postgraduate Study and the Professions
... institutions. Applicants had to intend to study at one of the six institutions on a one-year full-time or two- year part-time taught postgraduate programme beginning September 2014, leading to an MA, MBA, MEd, MMus, MPH, ...
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Widening access to cardiovascular healthcare: community screening among ethnic minorities in inner city Britain – the Healthy Hearts Project
... Within the communities assessed, the present data show that there is a demand and need for the assessment of dia- betes, hypertension, and CVD risk in adults, even among younger people, from the age of 25 years. Using ...
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The Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance Arrangements in Wales
... support widening access and retention of students from all backgrounds, including those from poorer backgrounds, ‘squeezed middle’ income families and those either estranged from their parents or whose ...
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Market driven system differentiation in England : can it foster equity and diversity?
... on widening access, low participation neighbourhoods, BME, perce tage state schools, ature stude ts … So losing some of those numbers would not probably make a very big ...
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English higher education : the historical and political context for marketisation, differentiation and equity
... the widening participation, widening ...on widening access, low participation neighbourhoods, BME, percentage state schools, mature students … So losing some of those numbers would not ...
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The impact of the changing English higher education marketplace on widening participation and fair access : evidence from a discourse analysis of access agreements
... on widening participation and fair ...of widening participation and fair access between the two data sets also provides evidence that the changing policy environment has led to a degree of ...
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Widening student access and participation in Allied Health Sciences: A critical reflection
... for widening access, it revealed the complexities of aligning intention with outcome that are significantly flawed by presupposed knowledge of the ...
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Breaking down barriers for women doctors
... 2 5 Mathers J, Sitch A, Marsh JL, Parry J Widening access to medical education for underrepresented socioeconomic groups population based cross sectiponal analysis 2002-6 BMJ 2011;342:d9[r] ...
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Widening Participation: A Rough Guide for Higher Education Providers
... institutional widening participation strategy? Staff and educational development, and teaching and learning units, will be involved in making provision to support staff in responding to more diverse student ...
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Fair access and widening participation at the University of Liverpool
... Increasingly more research is focusing on engagement, as this is considered to be malleable and highly susceptible to context and interventions (Trowler & Trowler, 2010). Simple changes, like the ways that students ...
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Full-time Young Participation by Socio-Economic Class : a new widening participation measure in higher education
... where widening participation is ...the access performance indicators do not tell us a sufficiently comprehensive story to inform on progress in widening ...
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‘It’s just not worth a damn!: investigating perceptions of the value in attending university
... Million+ (2013) have argued that a degree not only provides access to a financial premium but also more fulfilling jobs and less dependency on state benefits. Such research on the non- pecuniary benefits of HE is ...
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Widening interest, widening participation: factors influencing school students’ aspirations to study medicine
... While we did not set out to consider barriers in theor- etical terms, our findings indicate the importance of knowledge from formal and informal social networks. These may be seen as a form of social capital. Social cap- ...
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