ENGAGEMENT (continued)
INSPIRING SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
Middlesex provides highly accessible life-long learning and transferable skills to inspire and enable learners from all backgrounds to be part of our global community. We seek to provide seamless services and personalised support that anticipate student needs, remove barriers to access and encourage engagement with learning.
OPENING UP UNIVERSITY OPPORTUNITIES
Access and Participation Plan
Middlesex is one of the best places in the country for attracting people who may not consider studying for a degree. Most of our UK and EU students – 88% – fall within at least one widening participation category.
However, we are not complacent about this achievement. The University has set itself clear targets to make sure we keep supporting underrepresented groups in its Access and Participation plan. As the effect of COVID-19 on education became clearer, we adapted our course delivery and began new activities to better support students – these groups in particular. Our Access and Participation targets include:
— Reducing the non-continuation gap – which concerns whether students continue from one year to the next – between Asian and white students and those from a black, mixed or other ethnic background
— Closing the non-continuation gap between students entering university with A levels and those with BTECs
— Narrowing the awarding gap – the difference in the proportion of students awarded a first or 2:1 degree and those awarded a lower award – between students entering university with A levels and those with BTECs
— Reducing the gap in honours award levels between white and black students.
WORKING WITH
UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS Our work with underrepresented groups this year includes the following highlights:
Online mentoring
Sixth form students from underrepresented backgrounds in London have benefited from online mentoring from our undergraduates. They received one-to-one coaching over a five-month period to enable them to manage remote learning and develop key study skills. This was to improve their exam performance and employment prospects. This collaborative programme was shortlisted for the Sixth Form College Association’s 2021 Independent Learning award. Women student ambassadors studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses mentored female further education students studying these subjects from Westminster Kingsway College for a six-month period. This was in support of Linking London mentoring project, which focuses on underrepresented learners.
Scholarships and awards
The cost of going to university can be a concern to students. Middlesex does not want students to be discouraged from university study due to financial reasons so we offer scholarships, awards and bursaries.
This year, we once again awarded Community scholarships to full-time undergraduate students who have been excellent role models in their school, college or community, and/ or have succeeded in overcoming personal difficulties or challenging situations. In 2020/21, 20 students from households with an income of below £25,000 received these scholarships. They will each receive £6,000 over the duration of their course.
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