Bridging attainment gaps, improving completion and achieving student potential.

Building an evidence-based Access and Participation Plan online series of events

Identifying and addressing risk is central to the new Access and Participation Plans (APPs). This series of events provides the opportunity to identify how across the whole student lifecycle you can address risk through powerful interventions that work and strategic planning.

This is the second of three, separate online events, each one concentrating on a different aspect of the student lifecycle. Each event will include case studies of initiatives led by NEON members and opportunities for sharing knowledge and working together on common challenges. The other events are: Widening access and equality of opportunity – closing gaps and increasing participation and  Getting students into productive graduate employment and further study.

Event 2: Wednesday 17th April ‘Bridging attainment gaps, improving completion and achieving student potential’ . Sessions will include: 

• • • Sarah Harder-Collins, Head of Participation and Success, University of Winchester: Wave 1 provider – as a wave 1 provider the University of Winchester will explain their experiences of going through the APP process and the progress they have been making.
    • Kingston University: Headstart – a pre-arrival programme designed to support undergraduate students from under-represented groups to transition into university life. 
    • Newcastle College: Academic coaching in college based HE – a theory based approach to boosting the attainment of target students via personalised coaching plans.  
    • University of Exeter: Valuing life experience – build an evidenced based, university wide action plan with measurable targets to support mature students.  

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The featured initiatives have been developed from each HEP’s assessment of risk, been developed taking account of existing research and that have been nominated for a NEON Award or have been featured at our annual Summer Symposium. The aim of the event is to give HEPs practical examples of the types of approaches and interventions they could include in their APPs thus helping other organisations examples of practice that will help them to deliver their own plans.

In addition to the presentations each event will allow delegates to interact and share their own experiences of developing approaches which are being adopted to meet their own risks and meet the goals set out within their APPs.

These events promise to help HEPs who attend with their APP development and submit plans that will make a difference to learners who we all work so hard to support.

All events in these series  will be from 10am-4pm and will be run over Zoom.