Widening participation has been a vehicle to facilitate access and support towards the
successful completion of university studies for underrepresented groups who are less likely …

Employing students to market higher education (HE) and widen access is established
practice in the United Kingdom and other developed countries. In the United Kingdom …

Recent years in the United Kingdom and the United States have seen a massive expansion
of mentoring and similar schemes involving adults working with young people. These …

This is a rapid review of a sample of evaluation reports concerning pre-HE (outreach)
mentoring programmes for young people. The report identified a number of key practical and …

Widening Participation (WP), ie, interventions which increase disadvantaged individuals'
access to higher education (HE), has been on the political agenda for decades. Yet …

We know there are persistent gaps in attainment between students from advantaged and
less advantaged backgrounds–18% of students not eligible for free school meals attained …

The issue of social class related inequalities in access to Higher Education (HE) has been
high on the political agenda for nearly two decades. In spite of significant funding …

As part of the policy of widening participation, higher education institutions are required to
provide effective, targeted outreach programmes to raise the aspirations of certain groups of …