AGR DIVERSITY FORUM

“Can marginal gains make a massive impact?”

Wednesday 4th March

Tara Prayag

Head of Widening Participation,

Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach

&

Edwin Peel

Professor of Law & Access Co-ordinator

Oxford Law Faculty

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

The University•Widening Participation•Widening Access•Student Recruitment

Open Days

Museums & Collections

Colleges

Colleges

Colleges

Departments

Departments

Departments Partnerships

Tutors/Academics

OUSU

Students

Staff

Other Universities

Charities like Into University

Corporates like Lloyds

WIDENING PARTICIPATIONWe’re working with younger years and locallyWe’re looking at:-

Free School Meals First Generation into HE Looked-After Children Young Carers Black/Minority Ethnic Disabled Service Families (local) Families at risk of homelessness Grade predictions (GCSE)

Self declaration (young person/parents)Teachers

The Higher Education Access TrackerHigher Education Access Tracker database is a

monitoring and evaluation tool for subscribing

Universities.

The database has been developed collaborativelycollaboratively to

provide a web based data capture system that trackstracks

student engagement in outreach activities delivered by

each subscriber HEI and by partnership projects.

Only subscribers may access the information held on this

database.

Of those that are University ready….

The University of Oxford has recruited 15 HE entrants from its own tracked population between the academic years 2007/08 and 2013/14.

In addition it has contributed to the HE entry of a further 3725 to the HE sector as a whole.

89% of The University of Oxford's tracked participants were in work and/or further study six months after graduation. This compares with an average of 88% for leavers from all UK HEIs in 2012/13.

Putting Access into practice – Oxford Law

UNIQ summer schools

Pathways to Law

Other

UNIQ summer schools

2 x one week full time programme

60-80 students

End of year 12

http://www.uniq.ox.ac.uk/courses/social-sciences/law

UNIQ summer schools

Criteria

State school education Groups under-represented at Oxford

Number of A* at GCSE compared with average performance at applicant’s school

Academic attainment and history of progression to Oxford at the applicant’s A-level school

ACORN, Polar 3 data Personal statement

http://www.uniq.ox.ac.uk/Selectioncriteria

UNIQ summer schools

Outcomes

2014 54 applications to Law 38 went to interview (70%, cf. < 50% for all applicants)

17 received offers (31%, cf. c.15-20% for all applicants).

Pathways to Law

• 2 year programme

• c. 9-10 events per year

• Year 12 and 13

• 35 students per year (70 in total)

• Running nationally for 8 years; 2 years in Oxford.

Pathways to Law

Selection criteria

Interest in Law 5 A grades or 5 A* grades at GCSE first in immediate family to consider going to university

or be eligible for free school meals; Attend a state school or college Be from a deprived postcode in our region as

evidenced by POLAR (Participation of Local Areas)/IMD (Index of Multiple Deprivation) or ACORN

Pathways to Law

Outcomes: 2014 Report for Pathways to Law nationally

University

60% accepted to a Russell group or 1994 group university

25% accepted by one of the host universities 60% went on to read Law

Pathways to Law

Outcomes: 2014 Report for Pathways to Law nationally

Career (Cohort 1)

40% completed LPC, GDL, or BPTC 20% in the legal profession: training contract,

pupillage or other role

Putting Access into practice – Oxford Law

UNIQ summer schools

Pathways to Law

Other

AGR DIVERSITY FORUM

“Can marginal gains make a massive impact?”

Wednesday 4th March

Tara Prayag

Head of Widening Participation,

Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach

&

Edwin Peel

Professor of Law & Access Co-ordinator

Oxford Law Faculty