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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•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.
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
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