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Provision of Information to Students. Details of tuition fee levels and of the financial support available to students will be routinely published in our prospectus and on our website. For 2012/13, government guidance was not available in time for these details to be included in the printed prospectus. However, this refers prospective students to our website for further information, which will be published there as soon as OFFA approval of our proposals is received and well in advance of the start of the 2011/12 application cycle. We also plan to write directly to schools to draw attention to our fee levels and financial support package. Our Student Funding website includes a ‘funding calculator’, designed to enable students to work out the likely costs of studying at Bristol and to identify the various sources of funding (including both government and University of Bristol support) which they might be able to draw on to support themselves during their studies. Over the next few years, we also aim to widen the scope of our personal adviser scheme for widening participation applicants to ensure that targeted applicants have the opportunity to access student funding advice prior to taking up their place at the University. Information on tuition fee levels and of the financial support available to students will also be made available, in a timely manner, to UCAS and to the SLC, as they reasonably require, to populate their applicant-facing web services. Outreach activities £1.86m £1.92m £1.98m £2.01m Progression/retention activities £0.53m £0.54m £0.56m £0.57m Other continuing activity (e.g. job shop; student funding advisers) £0.37m £0.39m £0.40m £0.43m Student Hardship Funding £0.25m £0.25m £0.25m £0.25m Student Finance Package £4.79m £6.30m £7.68m £8.63m TOTAL REINVESTMENT £7.8m £9.4m £10.87m £11.89m % of additional fee income 30% 32% 33% 35% Mature Students 11.4% 7.7% 8.4% 9.1% Students from low performing schools / colleges3 46% 30.8% 26.4% Students from Low Participation Areas2 17.7% 7.8% 14.8% 14.5% Socio-economic groups 4-7 25.2% 19.8% 13.7% 13.6% Minority ethnic students 19.1% 15.3% 14.1% 12.8% Disabled students 4.6% 4.7% 4.8% 5.6% Local students 6% 3.7% 3.6% 3.6% WP Category Intake Milestone Actual Intake 2008/09 Actual Intake 2009/10 Actual Intake 2010/11 Mature Students 9% 5.3% 5.2% 4.4% Students from low performing schools / colleges3 40% 27.1% 25.3% Students from Low Participation Areas2 5.5% 11.9% 10.4% Socio-economic groups 4-7 14.9% 13.4% 11.6% Minority ethnic students 10.9% 10.8% 10.0% Disabled students 6.8% 6.2% 7.1% Local students 4.2% 5.2% 5.0% Note that, whilst application milestones are set for all categories, intake milestones are only be set for mature students and low performing schools, these being the two categories which we take active account of in the selection process. Most milestones are calculated by benchmarking the University’s position against its Xxxxxxx Group comparators. The exception is the milestone for low performing schools which are defined as those which in the previous year ranked in the bottom 40 per cent of all schools and colleges in relation to the average score per ‘A’ Level entry, the average score per ‘A’ Level entrant or the percentage of students applying to Higher Education. The methodology which underpins this particular milestone was developed by the University’s Widening Participation Research Cluster and is based on a detailed analysis of the entry grades and degree outcomes of Bristol students admitted from both widening participation and non- widening participation backgrounds. If achieved, our current milestone would deliver an intake profile comparable to the median within the Xxxxxxx Group. In the course of the next few years, further research will be undertaken, for example, to assess any possible impact of the poor quality of state secondary education in the University’s primary catchment area on the University’s ability to achieve its long term goals. It is possible that the above milestones may need to be revised further to reflect the outcomes of this work. The following table summarises the approximate allocation of funding to support outreach and student progression/retention over the period from 2012/13 until the new funding arrangements reach steady state in 2015/16. The exact breakdown is likely to vary year on year as plans evolve. 2012/13 2015/16 Awareness-raising activities including: Schools outreach 10,000 students (primary – post 16) £160k 12,000 students (primary – post16) £180k Mature student-related activity Open days 1500 students 2 2000 students 2 Summer Schools 160 year 12 students £60k 160 year 12 students £60k Access to Bristol scheme 500 year 12 students £70k 575 year 12 students £80k WP Marketing materials £16k £18k WP Research Cluster £30k £34k Collaborative Activity including: Realising Opportunities 30 year 11 students £200k 30 year 11 students £200k Post-Aimhigher provision 50 year 11 students 70 year 11 students Attainment raising activity delivered with external partners 1500 students (years 9-13) 2000 students (years 9-13) Personal adviser scheme 200 mature £100k 350 mature £115k applicants applicants 670 applicants 1150 applicants from from schools with schools with low HE low HE progression progression rates rates Pathway/progression route development £200k £200k Other (including general costs and provision for faculty developments) £106k £133k Faculty outreach salaries 1FTE for each of 6 faculties £300k 1FTE for each of 6 faculties £300k WP team and personal adviser salaries £618k £694k