Aimhigher and WP 200811

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Aimhigher and WP 2008-11
HEFCE
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Changes to Aimhigher

• Funding for Areas, with areas to decide whether
  to fund services at regional level
• Some area amalgamation to secure reasonable
  operating resource
• Lead HE appoints Aimhigher director and convenes
  Area Partnership Committee
• Simplified format for plans, monitoring, and
  evaluation, with external assessment

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Issues to resolveAn outline process

• Area meeting (existing areas) to determine
  whether to fund activity at a regional level
• A decision in principle might result in a working
  group to determine detail
• Further guidance will be issued and will
  incorporate advice from cluster meetings
• Area mergers where it makes sense and there is
  agreement

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Timetable

• Timetables depend on people
• Details of funding available end of January
• Area meetings to decide what to do about
  activities at regional level in February/early
  March
• Plans submitted by end of April
• and all arrangements agreed and ready to go by
  the end of June

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Relationships and process
Expectations learner identities attainment
choices
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Key interventionsAimhigher partnerships and HEIs

• Campus visits
• Mentoring
• Supporting learners (master classes, revision)
• Student ambassadors
• Summer schools and similar
• Delivering agreed programmes with schools and
  colleges

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Long term partnership with schools and colleges

• School-HEI links, near and at a distance
• A focus on progression expected in school
  improvement plans matched by HEFCE expectation
  that HEIs help to deliver
• And a focus on key transitions
• School-HEI partnership pledge makes expectations
  explicit and agreed
• Aimhigher brokers links

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Evaluation

• NFER continuation research
• New national research
• Aimhigher guidance
• Building evaluation capacity programme
• Workshops
• Toolkit
• Intensive work with HEIs and Aimhigher
  partnerships
• Evaluation plans and reporting