Starting young: Engaging pre-16 students with HE · First Campus, a HEFCW funded Reaching Wider...
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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
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
Working in partnership.
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Projects
Year 9 Residential
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
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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Questions&
Answers