[PDF] Top 20 “Widening Participation”? An analysis of a short University based programme

... Current government changes to HE funding requires Universities to demonstrate approaches to WP through Strategic Assessment and Access Agreements (Department for Business Innovation and Skills, 2011). One definition of ... See full document

... discourse analysis of access policy statements to trace the impact of differentiation and marketisation among English HE institutions that was evident before but accelerated by recent policy developments, ... See full document

... HE participation conditional on prior achievement (as shown in Chapter 5) but poorer students generally access the types of degree subjects that yield lower economic value in the labour ... See full document

... the university as a leading institution in the region replaced former references to engagement with collaborative partnerships (Aimhigher and Lifelong Learning Networks) which were both abolished in the period ... See full document

... an analysis process to begin, which entailed the disassembling of the data into lines, paragraphs or sections, within each individual article, thus identifying the key points of the article in relation to the ... See full document

... IFS analysis of which students receive the largest bursaries notes how cash bursaries are higher among students who achieve the highest entry grades (AAB or higher, later ABB or higher) "because the practice ... See full document

... their Widening Participation Strategic Assessments (WPSAs), are largely silent in terms of postgraduate ...Access’ analysis of WPSAs (from the 129 institutions required to submit a strategic ... See full document

... on Widening Participation and Fair Access: Evidence from a Discourse Analysis of Access Agreements, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2015 ... See full document

... the University, with its performance falling well below the UK ...Following analysis of the retention problems, a detailed Student Retention Action Plan with milestones has been developed and agreed with ... See full document

... is based on a review of 376 examples of widening participation research published in peer reviewed ...‘Widening Participation’ in the following databases - Education Research Complete, ... See full document

... document analysis of major equity policies in England since 1997 and in Australia since 2008, as well as a review of relevant OECD policy documents; and (b) analysis of nine interviews with equity ... See full document

... to widening participation may vary in their degree of similarity but they operate in different national ...for analysis and ...comparative analysis of policies for WP in the two countries has ... See full document

... HE participation in England can be explained by the fact that poorer students have lower levels of attainment at GCSE and Key Stage 5 ...to university alone are unlikely to be able to completely close these ... See full document

... Widening participation can create challenges of student retention, an issue being constantly addressed by such initiatives as increased student ...An analysis of the types of assessment within a ... See full document

... criteria based on specific elements such as those above will include individuals who are also over-represented in communities who reside in these ...target widening access to university is ... See full document

... of university life - and across the full term of their degree programme - these studies aim to examine interdependencies within, and across, key arenas of student ...is based on a three-year ... See full document

... We believe that all types of learning are valuable. It has always been difficult to define ÔvocationalÕ and Ônon-vocationalÕ learning and these concepts are fast becoming less and less valid. The growth of leisure, ... See full document

... opportunities”. They went on to explain “I was very worried about would people understand I get anxious sometimes and verbal processing can be an issue for me”. There was consensus that students with complex support ... See full document

... Websites were the primary route to information on the application process identified in Session 3. Some par- ticipants took specific, targeted approaches such as searching directly for a medical school or navigating from ... See full document

... Napier University showed that as a result of introducing self-check, 24% of survey respondents reported that staff had more time for non-issue desk tasks such as user assistance (Gollin and Pinder, ... See full document