Claire Newhouse

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14 19 Diploma Society, Health Development
Higher Education Pathfinder Project

• Claire Newhouse
• Higher York

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Project operation

• Raising Awareness
• Task Group of HE staff, SSCs, IAG professionals
• One-to-one meeting including with Admissions
  staff
• Regional workshop with Deian Hopkin
• Progression Opportunities
• Mapping exercise and gap identification
• Assessment of the number of students likely to be
  in each cohort and progress
• Information Advice and Guidance
• Connexions staff
• Higher York HE Admissions Group

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Project recommendations

• Local 14-19 partnerships and HE should make
  contact at an early stage in developments.
• HEIs need to recognise role of FECs
• Individual HE providers could ensure direct
  contact with LEA 14-19 developments at Executive
  level and/or in forums with Deans of Faculties
  through their established outreach staff/school
  partnerships.
• 14-19 partnerships should recognise that HE staff
  are willing to open up resources for sharing and
  have specialised knowledge on the Diploma
  contents which could be beneficial to local
  providers.
• HE providers should identify named individuals
  for consortia to communicate with.
• HEIs/14-19 partnerships should share appropriate
  links (esp. employers)
• Target markets for some Foundation Degrees may
  need to be revisited.

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How has the project influenced Higher York?

• Reorganised Health and Social Care Group to
  better match the SHD diploma and used the
  grouping organised for the Diploma project.
• Introduced the Diplomas to all curriculum groups
• More work with schools, 14 -19 partnerships
• Admissions Forum (HE Admissions staff and diploma
  delivery partners)
• Agreed a generic statement for HY about the
  acceptability of diplomas
• Specific progression route to degree programme
  (progression agreement)

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What we did next

• More staff awareness raising
• Continue examining and brokering wider role for
  HE in diploma development and delivery.
• Challenging members about developing their
  typical offers for diplomas
• Progress dialogue with all relevant HEI
  departments including Hull York Medical School
• Developing IAG (input through Admissions Forum)
• and..

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Developing Progression Agreements

• Working with professional bodies
• Uncertainty about use of UCAS tariff points and
  different configurations of courses
• Alignment with current HE programmes
• Questions of quality
• Fair Admissions
• More staff awareness rising and IAG