Higher Education Outreach to Widen Participation

Toolkits for practitioners

Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development, University of Derby)

About us
HEFCE funded project - Higher Education Outreach to Widen Participation.

Undertaken by the International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby and The Progression Trust.
Creating toolkits that re-contextualise the best of Aimhigher for the new era.

This session will

Introduce these toolkits Provide an opportunity for you to reflect on your own practice. Give some space for discussion about the current direction of widening participation.

Useful, usable and used

The process
Understand the new environment Review the Aimhigher legacy materials

The aims
Useful the right content Usable in the right format Used for professionals to use in their context

A changing landscape for WP

New government

Increase in student fees

The end of Aimhigher Shifts in policies around schools

Academies
Pupil Premium

How has your work changed?

New government

Increase in student fees

The end of Aimhigher Shifts in policies around schools

Academies
Pupil Premium

Has any of this made any difference?

Approaches to WP
Linear approach

Outcomes-focused approach
Partnership approach

Linear approach

Outcome-focused approach
The outreach approach is designed to achieve a particular outcome. Inter-dependency between partnership, targeting, programmes and evaluation is acknowledged.

Partnership approach
The learners higher education progression is the firm focus, but it is viewed in the wider context of their family and community and delivered through a multi-agency partnership. The learners principal learning provider (where they spend the most time) is at the centre of the approach.

Where do you stand?

Linear approach? Outcome-focused approach? Partnership approach?

What we have produced

Toolkits to draw together practice and re-contexualise it.

What do you need?

Where do you think you and your institutions development needs are? Partnership

Targeting
Programmes Evaluation

What we have produced

Tools to provide HE providers with practical resources to develop their approach.

The toolkits
Overview

Toolkit 1: Partnership
Toolkit 2: Targeting Toolkit 3: Programmes

These all present a developmental process.

Toolkit 4: Evaluation
Glossary and resources

The context Development Implementation Review

All available from the HEA website.

The toolkits: useful and usable

Understand Create Manage Review

Questions and discussion

Resources
Higher education outreach to widen participation: toolkits for practitioners http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/WP_ outreach_toolkits/all
Widening Access, Student Retention and Success National Programmes Archive http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/retention-archives Literature syntheses http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/WP_syntheses/six_liter ature_syntheses

International Centre for Guidance Studies http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

Progression Trust http://www.theprogressiontrust.org/ Adventures in Career Development http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/