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To meaningfully support GCSE attainment, the sector needs to dismantle its assumption of educational expertise and start collaborating effectively

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Alex Blower, Access and Participation Manager at Arts University Bournemouth. Rather than being populated by experts holding qualifications in youth work or education, the majority of university access and participation teams are staffed by individuals holding little formal experience as educators.

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Is the future tertiary?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. If change is coming, will this be incentivised or even forced upon institutions? If change is coming, will this be incentivised or even forced upon institutions?

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Raising institutional aspirations for supporting Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater students in higher education

HEPI

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Natalie Forster, Research Fellow in Applied Health and Social Care at Northumbria University. The idea of ‘raising aspirations’ has long been recognised as problematic in the field of widening participation.

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Designing outreach with people of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage – a lesson in critical unlearning

HEPI

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Emily Danvers, Lecturer in Higher Education Pedagogy (Education), School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex. of Irish Travellers access higher education by the age of 19 compared to around 40% of all young people. Yet a piecemeal approach results in slow social change.

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New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

Professor Scott Wilkes said that from the outset, the school’s emphasis has been on promoting accessibility, generalism and meeting NHS priorities. Some 47 per cent of students at Sunderland’s medical school are local and 27 per cent from widening participation backgrounds. Regional transformation.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Weekend Reading: The UK Transnational Education Quality Assurance Landscape in a Historical Perspective

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Fabrizio Trifiro , Head of International Quality Reviews and Stakeholder Engagement at Ecctis. On Tuesday, 16 May 2023, HEPI – in conjunction with Universities UK and Kaplan – will be launching new modelling from London Economics on the economic contribution of international students to the UK.