Higher Education Access Tracker. This database provides us with long term data (building on an earlier Aimhigher database) to show progression to HE by students engaged in outreach activity as well as progression to Solent.
Higher Education Access Tracker. (HEAT) The University of Xxxxxxx is a member of the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) membership service which assists Higher Education Institutions in England to target, monitor and evaluate their outreach activity. The University records data about its outreach and participants on the HEAT database. This is entered into the HEAT longitudinal tracking system which matches records on individual outreach participants to administrative datasets spanning Key Stage 2 data through to postgraduate study and employment. Tracking reports received from HEAT help the University to better understand the relationship between our outreach provision and the attainment and progression of disadvantaged young people. We are able to track student progression to any HEI, including this institution, so that we can assess the extent to which we are contributing to the increased participation rates of disadvantaged young people as a whole. Being part of the HEAT service also enables the University to engage with collective WP sector research. By using data from all members as an aggregate, the HEAT service is now able to explore new multi-dimensional ways of defining under-representation, disadvantage and differential outcomes and the effect that outreach can have on different groups of participants. By subscribing to HEAT we can take an evidence based approach to planning outreach delivery so that we can continue to invest in outreach activities that optimise progression with disadvantaged cohorts. Raising attainment As noted, the University plans to provide 200 hours of national curriculum subject tutor time to staff and 145 hours from subject tutors to sixth form courses for our sponsored academies. We will work with staff in these academies to develop appropriate mechanisms to evaluate the effectiveness of this support, using both qualitative perceptions and, where this proves possible, quantifiable outcomes.
Higher Education Access Tracker. (HEAT) In collaboration with other universities, we continue to subscribe to the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) service; The HEAT service is a continuation of the collaboration undertaken by the South East AimHigher partnerships. Through membership of the HEAT service we are able to provide evidence, based on longitudinal tracking, as a group of HEIs in a common geographic area, on the progression and achievement patterns of our HE outreach participants. Further details of how we use HEAT to monitor and evaluate our work can be found on p.20.
Higher Education Access Tracker. Since summer 2015, we have been recording participation of students on intensive outreach activities through the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT). This project tracks progression to university and enables us to measure the impact of outreach activity to inform future projects. We anticipate seeing the first set of results in spring 2017. Data from HEAT will be incorporated within our outreach evaluation strategy.
