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© University of South Wales Starting young: Engaging pre-16 students with HE Teresa Perry & Liz Trigg Senior First Campus Officers 18 th January 2019

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Starting young:

Engaging pre-16 students with

HE

Teresa Perry & Liz Trigg

Senior First Campus Officers

18th January 2019

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A Case for Early Intervention

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Prince’s Trust

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2016 UCAS survey pointed out that children who know they want to enter higher education by age 10 or earlier are 2.6 times more like to end up at a more competitive university than someone who decided in their late teens

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• Increase focus of efforts at widening participation on longitudinal engagement with school –age children, whereby institutions have sustained contact with them across the course of their primary and secondary school journey, to facilitate understanding of the potential of higher education and its relevance to their lives.

• Work with employers, in both primary and secondary schools, to improve children and young people's understanding and perceptions of the range and diversity of possible careers and how university relates to these.

• Engage alumni and current students to work in schools to share their higher education and career stories

Alterline’s University Futures

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• Encourage younger children to spend more time in meaningful activities on university campuses

• Undertake greater collaborative working amongst universities to promote higher education to younger age groups, with less focus on institutional recruitment

• Continue to work to improve Year 12 and 13 students' knowledge on university, university life and university finance to facilitate informed, rounded decision-making about whether to go to university, where to go and what to study

Alterline’s University Futures

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First Campus, a HEFCW funded Reaching Wider project.

First Campus, South East Wales Reaching Wider partnership.

Mission: it raises the aspirations and Higher Education awareness of

underrepresented learners through activities and workshops, which take place

at Higher Education institutions

Remit: young people aged 10 to 16 years and adults 21 years and over with no

level 4 qualifications, from the bottom two quintiles of the Welsh Index of

Multiple Deprivation

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First Campus

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Working in partnership.

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Projects

Year 9 Residential

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Workshops have run since 2005 including

Summer Schools

Over 900 workshops delivered

53.9% gone on to 6th form or college

64.4% have gone on to study at University

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Animation

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Boardgame Challenge

Primary Potions

Primary Maths

Star Pupil

Primary Anatomy

Primary Coding

Cyber Security Workshops

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Primary Aspirations

“The Tin Shed Production (Star Pupil) went extremely well - what fun and some good messages too.Many thanks to you and to them.”Head Teacher, Lliswerry High

School

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GP Project

Maths Masterclasses

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