Alongside our core programmes, we collaborate with institutions to deliver additional access and student success projects to support their priorities. Each project is specific to the needs of the partner and builds on our experience of working with the PhD community to develop key academic skills and self-efficacy to support students accessing and succeeding at university.
We partner to deliver and support university access projects covering three areas:
We worked with St George’s widening participation team to redesign resources for their primary school programme, Primary Practice.
We are partnering with St Andrews to deliver an academic intervention based on a condensed model of The Scholars Programme. The project forms part of First Chances, an access programme run by the university across Fife.
We are building on our expertise in supporting students to develop the academic skills necessary to access university and of training PhD tutors in inclusive teaching practice. Our student success work will focus on developing students’ academic self-efficacy and sense of belonging through partnerships with schools, universities and academics. We do this through:
We have partnered with Trinity College, Cambridge to deliver a transition project that is supporting young people during the transition between school and university.
Over the two-year programme, students complete Scholars Programme tutorials, an in-person Summer School at Trinity College, university application mentoring and university preparation sessions to give them the best start as university students.
This was a wonderful programme that really gave me an insight into what university life would be like. The assignment producing task was extremely effective to show me what I can do at an early undergrad level.
Our team of experienced social science researchers provide consultancy services to universities, and other education organisations looking to build their research and evaluation skills and capacity. Our services range from facilitating evaluation workshops to full-cycle programme evaluations. You can find out more here.
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