[PDF] Top 20 Learning works : widening participation in further education

... of further education and ...post-16 education and training therefore meet repeatedly in different forums to discuss similar and linked ...within further education must be recognised and ... See full document

... b. meeting a clear need /having a direct impact - some FECs were very aware that they were not succeeding in recruiting potential learners who aspired to HE from parts of their local community. The WP programme provided ... See full document

... Office for Fair Access (OFFA) states on their website that WP “refers to the participation of disadvantaged groups in higher education generally.”... Trends in English higher educatio[r] ... See full document

... Higher Education Statistics Agency ...higher education institutions (HEIs) in the ...the Learning and Skills Council, which allows us to observe whether or not individuals in our sample enrolled in ... See full document

... by Further Education colleges ...HE widening participation objectives, mostly in terms of sub-degree and foundation degree provision, organised through structured relationships between FECs ... See full document

... increasing participation is currently the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate ...initial participation rates for individual ages between 17 and 30 ...Higher Education ... See full document

... economic viability of some institutions over the next few years (Leathwood, 2010, Scott, 2011). Not surprisingly many post-1992 universities have begun to charge lower fees to maintain any kind of market position. By ... See full document

... encourage participation from learners who could be identified as belonging to ‘the majority of those categories included in the Kennedy ...A further 195 participants were to be recruited over the length of ... See full document

... Technical Education and Vocational Training’s (DTEVT) human resources capacity building initiative at higher levels, under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training (MSTVT), donor funding was ... See full document

... and Learning Technologies (ILT) to support e-learning in the UK Further Education (FE) ...for learning and ...virtual learning environments (VLEs) for storing course ... See full document

... future learning or training relevant to their work, 81% of respondents said they were either fairly likely or highly likely to do ...felt further learning and training was to their work and career, ... See full document

... considerations that such students do not want to be identified. There is an individual dysfunction model being used, as the respondents suggest that learning is the province of the student. Failure to succeed is ... See full document

... and learning might be improved, they promote various mechanisms or levers for improving teaching and learning, in which certain notions of pedagogy are ...competence-based learning, ICT-based ... See full document

... widen participation (WP) in higher education (HE) remains high on the UK political agenda, as the evidence continues to indicate the under-representation of some groups: particularly, those from lower ... See full document

... The selection of pupils for involvement in the SHEP schemes are based on teacher and SHEP staff identification of pupils who meet the criteria of being ‘at risk of not achieving their full potential’ or pupils who are ... See full document

... a further class-related barrier to some sports (Burton et ...of education is a significant determinant of sports participation (especially in individual sports), a variable that is strongly and ... See full document

... 227 success used, which principally expresses the main trends in educational trajec- tories, without offering the possibility of a detailed reading of various levels and echelons of academic success. The effect is ... See full document

... in participation does remain on entry into university, even after allowing for prior attainment, but it is modest relative to the magnitude of the raw differences once we control for A level achievement, and to a ... See full document

... the participation rates for young people entering higher education in the UK was considered to be low by international standards (OECD 2005) with further evidence to suggest that young people from ... See full document

... higher education, surprisingly so perhaps given the length of time since ...specific learning goal frequently measured by formal assessment as increased ...prescribed learning outcomes to be assessed ... See full document