Projects
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OFFA Access Agreements - Content and discourse analysis
Leading research on the widening participation agenda in the higher education sector in England using critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Political Discourse Analysis (PDA)
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Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
SIoE Professor Professor Colin McCaig is contributor and co-editor of new book on English higher education policy and equality
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Understanding the impact of financial support on student success: an institutional approach
For this initiative, data management staff at six universities worked to identify data fields that enabled them to better identify recipients of bursaries and scholarships so that institutions can better track their effectiveness.
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Understanding the evaluation of outreach with under-16s from disadvantaged backgrounds
Mapping institutions' HE outreach and access activities
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Scottish Toolkit for Fair Access
The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council on behalf of the Commissioner for Fair Access invited tenders for the development of a Scottish Toolkit for Fair Access. The strategic gap was identified by the Commission on Widening Access (CoWA).
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Understanding and overcoming the challenges of targeting students from under-represented and disadvantaged ethnic backgrounds
Research shows that there are persistent and significant disparities in the participation rates, retention and outcomes of students from different minority ethnic backgrounds in higher education.