Outreach Programme. The University invested in additional Outreach in 2011/12, following the demise of external funding, including from Aimhigher, allocating an extra £400,000 to normal baseline funding of £750,000. In 2012/13 we will maintain current expenditure and increase funding and delivery further. Delivery will be through a revised and refocused raising aspirations and progression programme as part of the University of the West of England Student Progression Framework. It will be based on refined targeting in line with this Agreement and with additional emphasis on outcomes. This will include tried and tested interventions including for curriculum support (master classes, revision and study skills, literacy and numeracy etc.), Information, advice and guidance, mentoring, tutoring, summer schools, Knowledge Exchange Networks, CPD for staff, special events and talks. The menu of activities will be offered to schools and colleges as an integrated Progression Programme. This approach will be trialled in 2011/12. A new UWE Compact Scheme will be developed for 2012/13 to replace the existing Heading Higher Passport Scheme. The new Scheme will be targeted at students from Low Participation Neighbourhoods in key partner target schools and colleges, and will include Access to HE Diploma students, Care leavers and Disabled students. It will be integrated with Outreach and the provision of bursaries. The criteria for the Scheme will enable the inclusion of contextual data in the admissions process to UWE. In addition, we will align the scheme with enhanced access to employers, for example the BBC Bristol Face to Face programme which supports progression into careers in the creative industries and media. This will include the provision of mentoring and internships. We will develop further links with employers, including through Business West. The scheme will include levels of entitlement for target students to activities which will be University based and also delivered in schools and colleges. As this is a new scheme, being launched at a time of significant contextual change, we will monitor closely its introduction. The Outreach Programme will include support for existing and additional Enhanced Partnerships with schools, as described in Section 6 above. This will support the achievement of targets and milestones identified in this Agreement. The Outreach Programme will also include further work through the UWE Federation of colleges, to consolidate and enhance current delivery...
Outreach Programme. Bath Spa University has developed an extensive and successful outreach programme for young people and adults to raise aspiration, support attainment and encourage progression to higher education. We work young people, their parents and supporters from a wide range of local and regional schools and colleges, mature and Access to Higher Education learners, people with disabilities and specific learning needs and a range of community groups, including those that support black and minority ethnic (BME) learners and young people in care or from a care background. The University has a vigorous inclusion and access policy and endeavours to make all activities accessible to people with disabilities and those from care backgrounds. As part of our duty under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 we also work to promote racial equality. School and college coordinators are strongly encouraged to include young people from these groups in all outreach activities undertaken by the University. Engagement with parents and carers is a critical aspect of our outreach programme and focuses on high quality and accurate information, advice and guidance (IAG) about student finance, student support and the UCAS process. All outreach activity is supported by a team of trained student ambassadors, mentors or tutors. Students from widening participation backgrounds are particularly encouraged to participate in this work. The range of the University’s pre-entry outreach activity for young and adult learners is summarised in Table 3.0 (Appendix 1). Elements of the programme that were previously funded through Aimhigher, such as our mentoring and tutoring programme, some pre-16 outreach activities and school/college-based parent and carers evenings will be reviewed and developed for 2012/13. Recently developed activity, such as our primary school programmes, school and college-based road- shows, support for 14-19 Diploma programmes and the Extended Project, have received very positive evaluation from teachers and will be developed and offered to more schools and colleges from 2012/13. The University will also be developing individual outreach programmes with its more recent academy and trust partner schools from 2011/12. Additional outreach activity to support access and progression to Bath Spa University courses that lead to professional careers will be delivered from 2012/13. Feedback and evaluation from young people, mature learners, teachers, tutors, local authority coordinators ...
Outreach Programme. 2.1 Geographical reach POLAR3 data Schools & colleges within POLAR3 quintiles 1 & 2 [xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx] EST Education, skills and training deprivation VA Value Added measure IDACI Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index
Outreach Programme. The 2018-19 outreach programme will address the strategic priorities described in section 4.1. Examples of our longer-term targeted work are: We will continue to work closely with St Paul’s Way Trust School and the Drapers’ Academy, offering an intensive programme of outreach support to students studying secondary and post-16 education in both schools. We will also continue to support teachers at both schools. We have developed a programme of intensive support for primary-age children. This currently includes the delivery of a primary coding club and reading challenge. We have prioritised our primary school work to benefit our long-term partner schools. The formation of the Drapers’ Multi-Academy Trust (which includes primary schools) and the development of St Paul’s Way Trust School into an all-through-school from Reception to Year 13 has allowed us to do this more effectively. We have developed, and continue to deliver, long-term projects such as Bridge the Gap, an access to medicine and dentistry programme. This work is focused on targeted secondary schools and colleges and their feeder primary schools, and aims to raise aspirations and awareness of medicine and dentistry as career pathways among students from groups that are significantly under-represented within the profession. It offers age-appropriate interventions at three stages – stage 1: Year 6, stage 2: Year 8-9, and stage 3: Years 10-13. The programme works with experienced external partners such as the Brightside Trust, who provide support for the e-mentoring strand of the programme. In addition, support is offered to parents, carers and teachers through online resources and an insight event held at the university. This event provides parents and carers with information on how they can support their children in pursuing medicine or dentistry, and gives them an opportunity to take part in some medicine and dentistry taster activities. All students who have completed the Bridge the Gap programme, and who meet QMUL’s minimum entry requirements, will be guaranteed an interview for a place on the undergraduate dentistry or medicine course. We are exploring ideas for academic research that will focus on the long- term impact of the Bridge the Gap programme.
Outreach Programme. 2.1 Geographical reach The University continues to work across a geographical area that encompasses schools and colleges across Sussex (West and East), Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Surrey, Kent, Essex and Dorset on a variety of levels, via delivery of our Learner Progression Framework. We are also expanding our work with schools and colleges in Croydon in conjunction with the Careers and Enterprise Company. A weighted combination of factors has been used to create a tiered list of schools and colleges within the above geographical area with which we have (and aim to have) both direct and virtual partnerships. In addition to locality and historical partnerships, the following factors have also been considered in order to target schools and colleges in the above area: POLAR3 data Schools & colleges within POLAR3 quintiles 1 & 2 [xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx] EST Education, skills and training deprivation VA Value Added measure
