The National Co-ordination Team for Widening Participation and Access to Higher Education

Publications

  • The Frank Buttle Trust Quality Mark: A Practice Guide

    published: December-2010

    The HE participation rate of care leavers is extraordinarily low and they therefore are a target group for widening participation activities. The guide supports institutions to proper support care leavers from pre-entry right through to their transition to employment.

  • Induction and Disabled Learners

    published: June-2009

    This publication draws together some examples of practice in HE designed to offer an improved transition experience for disabled students. Examples are drawn from across the sector and describe both mainstreamed and discrete approaches to induction.

  • Supporting Vocational & Work-based Learner Progression into HE

    published: June-2009

    Full Report:
    The results of a scoping study to identify joint Aimhigher and Lifelong Learning Network Activity that supports vocational and work-based learner progression to higher education.

  • Supporting Vocational & Work-based Learner Progression into HE

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    Summary Report:
    The results of a scoping study to identify joint Aimhigher and Lifelong Learning Network Activity that supports vocational and work-based learner progression to higher education.

  • Higher Education Progression Framework Guide

    published: June-2008

    The progression framework sets out a set of principles and gives illustrative examples of how schools, colleges and universities can work together to plan and prepare students for progression to higher education through integrated, sequential and coherent widening participation programmes.

  • University Admissions & Vocational Qualifications: Two Years On.

    published: June-2008

    This is based on follow-on research published by Action on Access in February 2006. In this latest study a number of the universities which participated in the original research were visited to investigate changes in admissions practice over the last 2 years.

  • Embedding Success: Learning from Disabled people in Higher Education

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    Describes initiatives that the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland have funded to improve the support higher education institutions deliver to meet the needs of a diverse range of students.

  • A Summary guide to 14-19 Reform

    published: May-2008

    A follow on from the first guide to 14-19 reform in October 2005. The guide highlights the aims of increasing participation, improving functional skills and tackling the academic vocational divide. Significant progress has been made and post-16 participation is consistently improving.

  • Post-16 Education and Disabled Learners: A guide for schools, colleges, and IAG workers

    published: January-2008

    This guide aims to bridge the gap between school and further and higher education by providing you with information about the support available for disabled students in further and higher education. We hope that this will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to be able to support and advise.

  • Action on Access: Looking forward to the future of Widening Participation

    published: December-2007

    Action on Access published and disseminated copies of our new publication Looking to the future of Widening Participation to celebrate moving into our ninth year as the Funding Council’s national co-ordination team. December 2007.

  • Policy That Works: Widening Participation to Higher Education

    published: December-2006

    A series of case studies which give answers to important questions about widening participation. These include what evidence can be gathered to demonstrate the impact of WP projects, which interventions and activities are most successful for their target, and how cultural change can be achieved.

  • Dissemination of Practice

    published: November-2006

    The case studies in this booklet show different ways Aimhigher projects and activities impacted on people’s lives by creating opportunities which operated in every local education authority in England. Aimhigher sought to widen and deepen participation in higher education between 2006 and 2011.

  • Engagement of Parents and Carers

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    Aimhigher partnerships evolved a number of strategies 2006 – 2009 to inform and involve parents and carers, to inform them of the higher education opportunities open to all young people who can benefit from them, and to involve them in the important life decisions their children have to make.

  • Work with specific widening participation target groups

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    TThe case studies in this booklet show the different ways Aimhigher projects and activities impacted on people’s lives by creating opportunities which operate in every local education authority in England. Aimhigher worked to widen and deepen participation in higher education between 2006 and 2011.

  • Mentoring, Ambassadors and Student Associates

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    Widening participation in higher education continues to be a Government priority in the UK. Students as mentors, ambassadors and champions are an important arm to deliver widening participation, and there is much to be learned from the activities described in this publication.

  • Masterclasses and other Aspiration Raising Activity

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    Widening participation in higher education continues as a Government priority in the UK. Aspiration raising as means of widening access and participation in higher education takes many forms. This publication describes some of the activities shown to have impact.

  • ACE, taster and other aspiration raising activities

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    The case studies in this booklet show the different ways higher education institutions worked with Aimhigher projects and activities to raise aspirations and impact on people’s lives, creating opportunities which operated across local education authorities in England.

  • Sweden ‘s Universities and vocational activity

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    Widening participation in higher education is a diverse field with many different issues to address. Field work by Action on Access in Sweden demonstrated that when international comparators are examined the field becomes even more diverse, and that different perspectives offer different lessons.e.

  • Higher Education in the USA, student fees, financial aid and access

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    Widening participation in higher education is a diverse field with many different issues to address. Field work by Action on Access in the USA demonstrated that when international comparators are examined the field becomes even more diverse, and that different perspectives offer different lessons.

  • Canadian universities, their students and Social Equity

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    Widening participation in higher education is a diverse field with many different issues to address. Field work by Action on Access in Canada demonstrated that when international comparators are examined the field becomes even more diverse, and that different perspectives offer different lessons

  • South African universities, their students and social equity

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    Widening participation in higher education is a diverse field with many different issues to address. Field work by Action on Access in South Africa demonstrates that international comparators show the field becoming even more diverse, and that different perspectives offer different lessons.

  • Australian Universities, their students and equity

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    Widening participation in higher education is a diverse field with many different issues to address. Field work by Action on Access in Australia demonstrates that international comparators show the field becoming even more diverse, and that different perspectives can offer different lessons.

  • The Learner Perspective in Educational Transitions

    published: February-2006

    As part of the Learning and Skills Council’s involvement in Aimhigher, and in response to raised concerns, it commissioned Action on Access to undertake a research project to examine and explore these learners’ views at particular moments of transition between levels of study.

  • Progressing to Higher Education: vocational qualifications and admissions

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    This research study explored higher education admissions-related issues affecting the entry of vocationally qualified learners to degree study. It is an area which is of considerable interest as new vocational qualifications and more effective vocational pathways are developed.

  • A Summary Guide to 14 – 19 Reform

    published: October-2005

    This guide identified and described some of the potential effects on the widening participation agenda of the reforms within 14-19 education through 2004-2006.