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Widening participation research from Aimhigher program
- 1. Research, Policy and Practice in widening participation Evidence from Aimhigher Joanne Moore, John Sanders and Jo Wiggans
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Partnership are cost-effective but they are not cost-free
- And WP students are really interested in learning locally and in alternative pathways.
- The result is a huge wealth of data. Who listens? Who reads? Locally it is of immense value and has informed and changed policy and strategy. Nationally, it has made little noise and had little attention.
- Okay a lot of stats here – and more in the report itself which is nonetheless short. What does it do? It shows local authorities, schools, colleges that part-time is a real option. It shows providers that part time provision is widening participation (probably). It tells us that the trend is flat – cf full time where the trend has been markedly increased participation in the same period. Why? And will this change with the new fees? Leave slide on screen for long enough for people to read through the stats. Is there anything surprising in here for you? What other data would you want to see? Who needs to know?
- Mix of description and analysis Use of school data and pupil and teacher perspectives Shows the contextualisation of the programme and its use to meet and to inform school strategic targets Top tips for other schools Clearly show change in attitudes and trajectories of Aimhigher cohort learners – not every one of course but a statistically significant majority Take the five together – although all different, they all show similar trends. What could a researcher do with this data?
- Eg: 1. recent Sutton trust research lists local authority districts with lowest rates of progression to HE. Fair enough except that they totally fail to take account of the fact that some local authority districts have little post 16 provision in the borough so learners leave and are then counted as if they live in a different place when all they did is take a bus to a college in the town next door. It ’ s a north/south thing - they assume that schools have sixth forms and if their data shows hardly any kids in sixth forms they must have left school. In fact the schools don ’ t even have sixth forms … Research into fees sensitivity - because we know the nature of different colleges and their catchment, we could see that understanding of things taken for granted in some groups affects attitudes to fees - I.e. if you cannot differentiate between universities, price sensitivity is relatively simplistic. Hence additional questions which are, in some ways, more revealing that the straight questions about fees. FFT data in schools.
- The strengths of Aimhigher – locally flexible and responsive. Strategic delivery through wide range of partners. Engagement of schools, colleges and universities. Practitioner led. Were also its weakness – lack of strong vocal support from VCs and senior staff in universities, departmental ignorance, lack of a national respected voice that could counter Daily Mail evidence – surely the worst kind. Narnia in HEFCe.