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
Attendance for Access and Participation Plans
Private Sector
£395 + VAT
Attendance for Access and Participation Plans
HE Professional
£395 + VAT
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