Collaborative Approaches to Widening Participation | Improving Univers Collaborative Approaches to Widening Participation (WP) offers a much-needed look into how academic and professional university staff can work together to

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Satisfied? Student Surveys, Social Position, and the Limits of Experience Data The National Student Survey ranks institutions, shapes league tables, and features in marketing materials as evidence of teaching excellence. But satisfaction is not the same as learning, and the social position of the student completing the survey shapes what they report in ways the instrument cannot detect. This article applies a Bourdieusian lens to the NSS — and finds that the data is telling us something rather different from what it is used to claim.

The NSS ranks institutions and ends up in marketing materials as proof of teaching excellence. But satisfaction ≠ learning — and when you apply a Bourdieusian lens to who reports what and why, the data starts telling a very different story.

#HigherEducation #NSS #WideningParticipation #HE

How about Vice Chancellors pay is performance related, aligned to student numbers and a maximum of 20? times the lowest paid staff member. That might save some money and reputation. An example of narrow minded unintelligent comments. #HigherEducation #UK #WideningParticipation #Leadership

#wideningparticipation initiatives, many medical schools do address this kind of representation

A New Frontier: higher education and diversifying the talent pipeline for London’s emerging industries - London Higher We are the voice of the higher education sector in London

London universities' #WideningParticipation activity "concentrated in inner & West London...Outer boroughs remain ‘cold spots’ [&] opportunities for young people in areas like #BarkingAndDagenham, #Havering & #Bexley are much more limited"
londonhigher.ac.uk/resource/acc... #SocialMobility #HigherEd

From Access to Belonging: Rethinking Widening Participation Metrics in UK Higher Education Widening participation policy is often judged through dashboards of access, continuation and attainment. Yet focusing on who gets in – and who stays – can mask how universities continue to privilege particular histories, dispositions and futures. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital and institutional habitus, this article argues that belonging should sit at the centre of how we interpret student data, and explores what a more “belonging-sensitive” approach to WP metrics might look like in UK higher education.

Universities can hit widening participation targets while dashboards say little about who feels they belong. How WP metrics obscure or reveal inequality in UK higher education. Using student data to surface, rather than hide, inequality in UK HE. #WideningParticipation #Belonging #HigherEducation

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New plans will break the link between FSM and pupil premium. Seems like a positive step for making sure low income families that fall outside of the narrow FSM eligibility criteria are counted. #WideningParticipation teams will need to think about the change in school-based targeting approaches.

"Most students will need a rent guarantor to secure university halls or private housing...
14% of low-income students are reconsidering university due to accommodation costs – with guarantor requirements cited as a major barrier."
#WideningParticipation #HigherEd

Male student at The Access Project. Text reads: 81% of our students received an offer from a top university.

In 2024, 81% of students taking part in our #WideningParticipation programme received an offer from a top university, compared to just 49% of statistically similar students.

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"university prospectuses & websites overwhelmingly... understating the actual 3-year cost by nearly £2k" is scandalous.

Undeclared "mandatory charges & hidden course costs" cause particular problems for low-income students (but institutions typically dismiss as nugatory)

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"how we can more effectively involve parents in #WideningParticipation efforts"

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"graduates from non-graduate families fare better than their peers without a degree, but they often do not catch up with graduates from graduate families. This demonstrates both the power & the limits of higher education in terms of #SocialMobility".

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"Young degree apprentices are much less likely to be disadvantaged than both similar-aged Russell Group undergraduates & the wider undergraduate cohort"

#WideningParticipation #Apprenticeships #SocialMobility

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“teacher evaluations [have a] systematic bias favoring higher income & female students”, with consequences for who gets into which university.

#WideningParticipation #DEI #SocialMobility

Good news from the Labour party conference #socialmobility #wideningaccess #wideningparticipation

The Access Project logo. Text reads: One in five state schools teachers don't think their school provides good life skills opportunities. We're here to fix that.

State education is under extreme pressure.

Our #WideningParticipation programme invites young people aged from the country's most under-resourced areas to develop essential skills and place at top universities - giving them the best chance to thrive later in life.

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To make real progress on widening participation in higher education, we need a new mission Presenting the final report of the UPP Foundation’s inquiry into widening participation, Richard Brabner calls for ambition in getting in, getting on and getting out Presenting the final report of the...

#WideningParticipation is still a frequent term @wonkhe.bsky.social, most recently wonkhe.com/blogs/to-mak...

Equality of opportunity - Office for Students How we promote access, success and progress for underrepresented groups of students.

Searching for #WideningParticipation on the OFS website reaches #EqualityOfOpportunity. OfS ran a consultation on that on 2022 so change was possibly after that, with HE in England adopting the regulator's framing www.officeforstudents.org.uk/for-provider...

“who are we to define what success should look like for someone else? […]
Let’s put co-development at the heart of everything we do”

#WideningParticipation #HigherEd #DEI #HR

Participants and facilitators on the Create, Make & Innovate film making Summer School that was hosted by teams at University of Glasgow, GMAC and SWG3 throughout July, seen pictured outside Gilmorehill Halls.

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have gained skills in creative arts and filmmaking while getting a taste of life at the University of Glasgow. 

www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

#WideningParticipation #Glasgow #TeamUofG

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⭐London Higher stands ready to play a key role in shaping regional access partnerships for the capital!

We have responded to the OfS’ call for evidence on regional #access partnerships, drawing on the experience of our #wideningparticipation team and collaborative network.
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Understanding the mutating ‘Third Wave’: comparing the drivers of remote metropolitan branch campuses & international #branchcampuses

@nigel-healey.bsky.social & Rob Hickey

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#Intled #TransnationalEd #InternationalStudents #WideningParticipation #UniversityFinances #London

Four ways to boost diversity in environmental science The barriers to STEM subjects start long before students apply. From rigid entry requirements to a lack of representation, here are four, with practical ways to build a more inclusive environmental sc...

Many students from under-represented backgrounds see environmental science as a passion, not a profession.
Abby Onencan explores four systemic ways to fix that:
🔗 www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/four-...
#academicsky #EDI #Environmentalscience #DEI #STEMDiversity #Wideningparticipation

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Great to see our friends at The Kings Trust and The Manchester College combining to support young people in GM!
#KingsTrust #WideningParticipation #Manchester