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Access and Participation Plans: Submission and Beyond

Tuesday 30th April 2024
9:30am - 3:20pm
Virtual Conference

This action day will explore how providers submitting Access and Participation Plans as part of Wave 2 in May and July 2024 can prepare for the final stages ahead of submission and look towards implementation and delivery of the plan.

Participants will take part in deep-dive sessions with leading practitioners and Wave 1 providers to explore how to deliver on addressing risks to equality of opportunity.

This event will be a vital checkpoint to benchmark practice and ensure strategies meet OfS expectations on intervention design, building an evidence base and working in partnership to tackle structural barriers to opportunity.

Objectives

  • Ensure your Access and Participation planning and delivery is on track to meet OfS expectations

  • Map your route to submission and implementation of an Access and Participation Plan

  • Explore solutions on using robust data insight and demonstrating an evidence base

  • Assess how to support successful interventions that tackle risks to equality of opportunity



Headline Speakers

Dr Omar Khan
CEO
TASO

Andi Brierley
Head of Access, Participation and Outcomes
Leeds Trinity University

Jenny Boyle
Access and Participation Manager
University of Bath

Dr Morag Duffin
Head of Access and Student Success
The University of Law


Agenda


9:30 am

Chair’s Welcome Address

 

Andi Brierley
Head of Access, Participation and Outcomes
Leeds Trinity University (CONFIRMED)


09:40 am

Opening Keynote from TASO

 

Dr Omar Khan
CEO
TASO (CONFIRMED)


10:10am

Break and Networking


10:20 am

Building a Robust Evidence Base: Insights from Wave 1

 
  • Mapping your risks to equality of opportunity

  • How to build a picture of sector and local evidence on your risks

  • How do we know if to  our interventions will work and how to enhance an evidence base?

  • What if there is no tangible evidence base?

  • Practical approaches to demonstrating how your interventions have successful mitigated risk

 

Jenny Boyle
Access and Participation Manager
University of Bath (CONFIRMED)


11:00 am

Break and Networking


11:20 am

Raising Attainment of Students Before Higher Education: Practical Solutions on Embedding Real Impact on A&P Delivery

 
  • Ensuring outreach with schools and colleges aligns meaningfully with evaluation mechanisms and impact

  • What does it take to delivery interventions that deliver real improvements in attainment and how can this be presented within Access and Participation Plans?

  • Developing an approach to partnership and co-creation with schools that addresses core risks to equality of opportunity

  • How can we be more ambitious in our plans about outreach and engagement at pre-16 level?

  • Action areas when outreach interventions aren’t working and how to respond

 

Liz Routhorn
Head of Widening Participation and Outreach
London Metropolitan University (CONFIRMED)

 

Dr Katie Groves
Head of Schools and Colleges Engagement
Anglia Ruskin University (CONFIRMED)


12:00 pm

Break and Networking


12:20 pm

The Final Checkpoint: Mapping Your Route to Final Submission and Implementation of New Access and Participation Plans

 
  • Delivering on the risks to equality of opportunity and overcoming structural barriers

  • Understanding the final stages of the effective Access and Participation planning process

  • Ensuring the risks, interventions and resources in your institution are mapped to align with an evidence-based framework

  • Managing governance and oversight structures across your institution

  • Learning lessons from wave 1 and how wave 2 providers should adapt

  • Understanding how the submission and approval process may look

  • The steps on delivery and implementation of your plan

 

Dr Morag Duffin
Head of Access and Student Success
The University of Law (CONFIRMED)


1:20 pm

Break and Networking


1:40 pm

Approval of Wave 1 Access and Participation Plans: Analysis of OfS Queries

 
  • An overview of the most common queries received by wave 1 providers

  • How many rounds of queries and volume of queries to expect

  • Working with the OfS assessors

  • The length of the assessment process

  • Accessing help and support

 

Dan West
Policy and Research Lead, Social Mobility
University of Derby (CONFIRMED)


2:20 pm

Break and Networking


2:40 pm

Designing Intervention Strategies that Meet Expected Outcomes

  • Exploring how your intervention activities address your risks in equality of opportunity

  • Underpinning each intervention with an evidence base and theory of change

  • Developing tools for understanding the success of your interventions

  • Aligning interventions with expectations on collaboration, student consultation and a whole-provider approach

  • Learning from a wave 1 provider in demonstrating your intervention strategy

 

Florence Harvey
Associate Director of Widening Participation and Social Mobility
University of Southampton (CONFIRMED)


Conference Close

3:20 pm

* Programme subject to change


 

Audience

Those in attendance will include:

  • Directors of Student Recruitment

  • Pro Vice Chancellors

  • Widening Participation Manager

  • Outreach Officers

  • Student Recruitment Managers

  • Heads of Widening Participation and Access

  • Access Managers

  • Directors of Admissions

  • Associate Deans

  • Heads of Equality and Inclusion

  • Heads of Outreach


Pricing

Public Sector
£345 + VAT

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Private Sector
£395 + VAT

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