{"id":298,"date":"2013-01-10T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-01-10T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T10:02:53","slug":"widening-participation-toolkits-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/01\/10\/widening-participation-toolkits-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Widening participation resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?attachment_id=299\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-299\" alt=\"widening participation toolkit\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/widening-participation-toolkit.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Academy (HEA)\u00a0recently published four toolkits which, according to Alan Langlands (HEFCE Chief Executive),\u00a0offer &#8220;practical guidance for those working in higher education outreach and widening participation&#8221;. Available through the HEA&#8217;s website at <a title=\"Higher education outreach to widen participation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/resources\/detail\/WP_outreach_toolkits\/all\">Higher education outreach to widen participation: toolkits for practitioners<\/a>, these toolkits are web-based and cover four themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>partnership building<\/li>\n<li>targeting activities<\/li>\n<li>delivering programmes<\/li>\n<li>undertaking evaluation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the HEA says, these &#8220;are a distillation of the learning, methods and resources developed by Aimhigher and the Lifelong Learning Network programmes. They support the effective strategy, management and delivery of outreach work to encourage progression to higher education for under-represented groups. The toolkits recontextualise the learning from these programmes to fit the current higher education environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these toolkits, the HEA\u00a0also hosts a series of other resources\u00a0through the <a title=\"WASRS archive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/retention-archives\">Widening Access, Student Retention and Success (WASRS)\u00a0National Programmes Archive<\/a>, including six <a title=\"WASRS literature syntheses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/resources\/detail\/WP_syntheses\/six_literature_syntheses\">WASRS literature synteses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Academy (HEA)\u00a0recently published four toolkits which, according to Alan Langlands (HEFCE Chief Executive),\u00a0offer &#8220;practical guidance for those working in higher education outreach and widening participation&#8221;. Available through the HEA&#8217;s website at Higher education outreach to widen participation: toolkits for practitioners, these toolkits<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/01\/10\/widening-participation-toolkits-launched\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-he-trends","category-widening-participation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}