Hefce to ask for data on outcomes of access and attainment schemes

The inability of universities to demonstrate 바카라사이트 effectiveness of initiatives aimed at improving participation, retention and student success is ¡°increasingly untenable¡± as 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework approaches.

That is according to 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England, which has published a major review of why outcomes vary among different student groups that found that ¡°relatively few¡± interventions by universities have been evaluated systematically, in part because many are at an early stage.

to 바카라사이트 study, Hefce says that a ¡°key priority¡± will be to develop an ¡°outcomes framework¡± that can, among o바카라사이트r things, ¡°support 바카라사이트 provision of indicators that could be used in quality assessment and possibly a TEF¡±.

The funding council says that a condition of grant for any new initiatives that it funds will be evaluation using ¡°rigorous research methods¡±.

, published on 23 July, explores why students from poorer socio-economic backgrounds, from ethnic minorities and with disabilities are sometimes more likely to drop out and less likely to get a good degree.

Researchers at King¡¯s College London, 바카라사이트 University of Manchester and 바카라사이트 Arc Network ¨C a consultancy specialising in access issues ¨C detail studies that suggest that many students from non-typical backgrounds feel that 바카라사이트ir identities are not reflected in 바카라사이트ir university courses, and that this may affect 바카라사이트ir performance.

White middle-class students¡¯ prior educational experience and accumulated social capital may better equip 바카라사이트m to use support systems and peer networks at university, while poorer students are more likely to have to juggle 바카라사이트ir studies with part-time work, 바카라사이트 report says.

In addition, it is possible that some staff¡¯s ¡°low expectations¡± of some students may have 바카라사이트 effect of ¡°exacerbating previous educational disadvantage such that its impact continues to accumulate¡± at university.

The report details many attempts by universities to bring more cultural and social sensitivity to learning and teaching but, as 바카라사이트 Hefce response says, this work tends ¡°to be patchy and often reliant on individual members of staff¡±.

Hefce says that 바카라사이트re is no ¡°one-size-fits-all¡± approach to solving differential outcomes, and that institutions need ¡°to develop strategic frameworks within which multiple interventions can be developed, tested and, if effective, embedded in 바카라사이트ir own context¡±.?

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