Outreach and retention work. If you are proposing to introduce additional outreach or retention work in respect of ITT, over and above the outreach/retention work you have committed to in your existing 2012-13 access agreement, please include details here.
Outreach and retention work. In 2012/13 and 2013/14 we propose to increase the total university expenditure on outreach and retention to include ITT students. The spend on outreach and access will be calculated using the same proportion of additional fee income as is used for non ITT students. Within this spend, for ITT students there will be focused attention on the recruitment and retention of BME for all phases and males for primary teaching. This is in line with national priorities, university identified ITT self-evaluation and already included in our existing access agreement. The expenditure will facilitate an enhanced range of activities which may include a combination of activities listed in Annex C, p10-11 (February 2012/02) Annex A Part four: Targets, milestones and monitoring
Outreach and retention work. In terms of retention, the University would extend all of the appropriate initiatives outlined within our original 12/13 Access Agreement to our GT ITT students. As we state in paragraphs 1 and 31 of our agreement respectively …the exceptional quality of our students and the high quality of their teaching and learning environment ensures that we are able to retain a higher proportion of our intake than either the average of our peers or the majority of the English Higher Education sector. …over 95.5% of our full time first degree entrants are in higher education in the following academic year, and we have a projected completion rate of over 95%, compared to a benchmark of around 91%, according to the latest set of HESA Performance Indicators. The main reason for this is the high quality of our learning and teaching coupled with excellent academic support and personal tutoring in our Schools, as recognised by the QAA in their recent Institutional Audit. Our academic support is complemented by specialist student services (e.g. counselling, disability services, support for care leavers and parents), our residential wardens, our Student Funding Office who deliver a range of financial literacy courses, and the exemplary work of the Guild of Students. In this [2011/12] academic year, we have also brought together all our support and training for academic staff into a new Centre for Learning and Academic Development (CLAD). As of August 2011, a new team within Student Support and Development has taken ownership of responsibility for enhancing academic teaching, improving the student experience, and disseminating good practice. In addition, we have a variety of specialist support for students who are care leavers, parents, or who have disabilities. All of these support facilities are available to our PG ITT students. It is also important to note that around 1/3 of our entire GT ITT intake are University of Birmingham alumni and will therefore have benefited from our original UG related outreach and retention activities. Annex A UoB graduates Others Cohort No. %age No. %age 2007 117 38.61% 186 61.39% 2008 117 39.13% 182 60.87% 2009 148 41.69% 207 58.31% 2010 114 33.14% 230 66.86% 2011 105 33.23% 211 66.77% UoB GT ITT Population: Source Internal November snapshot data Part four: Targets, milestones and monitoring
