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UWE’s Widening Participation
Imperative
The Inclusive University Conference
Wednesday 4th November 2009
Chris Croudace, Head of WP and Director of Outreach Centre
[email protected]
1.
UWE’s first WP strategic assessment - outcomes
The University’s WP strategic assessment has enabled us to:
• re-affirm the importance of WP – values, vision and mission!
• evidence how our commitment to WP is manifest within the
institution and how this contributes to the development of a
diverse student body
• bring all our activity together in a single strategic document
• set out our detailed objectives and planned achievements for the
period 2009/10 to 2011/12.
• outline the level of resource we have committed to WP
• Celebrate our achievements!
2.
Place of WP in UWE’s updated Vision and
Mission
• WP at the core of our updated Vision and Mission
• Major commitment to raise aspirations and widen access
to HE for people from under-represented backgrounds,
families, groups and communities
• Issue of social justice
• Succeeding at it contributes to social inclusion
3.
Who is under-represented in HE?
• People from lower socio-economic groups
• People who live in areas of relative deprivation where
participation in HE is low
• People from certain minority ethnic groups or sub groups
• People with a disability
• People from cared-for backgrounds
4.
Widening Participation Strategy
• Pre-entry – aspiration and awareness raising as well as
improving attainment
• Access and admissions – application support and
enhanced admissions procedures
• Retention and success – HE preparation and
transition; induction and social integration; learning,
teaching and curriculum development; student support
• Enhancing employability – equipping students with the
experience and skills to progress to employment or
further learning on completion of HE studies
5.
UWE’s WP outreach programme
• UWE engages with learners in schools and colleges on a
large scale and through a number of different routes
• Comprehensive programme of activities to support young
people aged 9-19, mature learners, young people in care and
prospective students with disabilities
• Many initiatives developed and delivered in partnership with
Aimhigher West, WVLLN and OCN SWR
• One of our biggest assets in delivering our WP outreach
programme is our student body!
6.
Student support - bursaries
• UWE bursary - £1,000 pa for UK students with residual
household incomes of up to £25,000 pa
• In 2008/09 University expenditure on bursaries
amounted to £6.2 million – approximately 5300
recipients (36% of all students)
• In 2nd year of the new student finance system (2007/08),
UWE achieved fourth highest level of expenditure on
bursaries and outreach activity amongst 123 HE
institutions with Access Agreements
7.
WP performance indicators – how are we
doing?
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Young entrants from state schools or colleges – 89.1% (LAB 88.8%)
Young entrants from lower socio-economic groups – 28.2% (LAB 31.4%)
Young entrants from LPNs – 8.9% (LAB 9.5%)
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Mature entrants with no previous HE and from LPNs – 15.8% (LAB 13.1%)
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Students in receipt of Disabled Students’ Allowance – 4.1% (LAB 5.0%)
LAB – denotes HESA ‘Location Adjusted Benchmark’
8.
Diversity of our student intake by area of
domicile 2007/08
Full-time UK domiciled
undergraduate entrants *
All regions
of domicile
SW region
of domicile
4 UA area of
domicile**
Bristol UA
area of
domicile
aged 21 and over
28.0%
39.2%
50.6%
61.2%
from minority ethnic
backgrounds
11.1%
10.6%
15.7%
24.6%
from low participation
neighbourhoods (LPNs)
11.8%
16.7%
25.6%
43.7%
from lower socio-economic
groups (NS-SEC classes 4-7)
31.1%
36.8%
38.9%
43.2%
known to have a disability
8.7%
8.5%
9.4%
10.1%
in receipt of DSA
4.1%
4.1%
4.4%
4.5%
Total entrants
6079
3267
1522
693
* In addition to first degree entrants, undergraduate entrants include those studying for foundation degrees, diplomas,
certificates, and other undergraduate programmes.
** Bath and North East Somerset; Bristol; North Somerset; South Gloucestershire
9.
Student retention rates
Non continuation following year of entry – full-time first
degree entrants starting in 2006/07:
• Young entrants from low participation neighbourhoods
– 8.4% (LAB 10.2%)
• Mature entrants without previous HE qualification
– 12.6% (LAB 14.3%)
LAB – denotes HESA ‘Location Adjusted Benchmark’
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Issues to consider
Cap on student numbers – impact on WP
Increasing our tariff on entry points – impact on WP
Lifting the cap on tuition fees – impact on WP
Political change – impact on WP