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Action on Access WP and Access Eupdate Issue 139: 18 June 2021 1 Action on Access WP and Access eUpdate Issue 139: 18 June 2021 This eBulletin is created and produced by Andrew Rawson, Director, Action on Access, and currently emailed to 1,530 colleagues in the wider access widening participation and student success community. Don’t forget you can follow Action on Access on twitter: @actiononaccess Our eUpdates provide a monthly round-up of the latest news, events, resources and information requests on higher education, and include occasional features on Widening Participation, access, student success and social justice. I hope you find it useful and informative. Please continue to send me your feedback as well as your contributions. This edition will continue to be available until the next monthly edition at http://www.wptestsites.co.uk/actiononaccess/resources/e-update If you have any suggestions for how the newsletter could be improved, have any items of news, an event or an article you would like to contribute, please contact the editor at [email protected]. We disseminate information every day through our [email protected] list and current WP, access, student success and related vacancies are also regularly posted at http://www.wptestsites.co.uk/actiononaccess/resources Contents Welcome to the June 2021 Action on Access eBulletin. ...................................................................3 What’s New .............................................................................................................................................4 Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, 18 May 2021 ..................................................................................4 ‘The Skills and Post-16 Bill enters the Lords’, second reading,15 June 2021; David Kernohan ........4 ‘Access and Participation to Higher Education - Time for reflection and reconsideration?’, Mandy Crawford-Lee, FE News, 20 May 2021 ...............................................................................................4 ‘Access and Participation Plans and Higher and Degree Apprenticeships’, FACE blog, 22 May 2021 .....................................................................................................................................................4 Universities ‘need full transformation’ towards lifelong learning’, THE article, Simon Baker, 1 June 2021 .....................................................................................................................................................5 Lifelong loans ‘could create long-term cost for English sector’, THE article 1 June 2021, John Morgan, deputy news editor ................................................................................................................5 ‘Weekend reading: How higher education needs to fit into lifelong learning’, HEPI blog, 15 May 2021 .....................................................................................................................................................5 ‘HE and FE unite locally as England-wide policy still ‘disjointed’’, THE article, 18 June 2021. ..........6 Cash boost for English technical education ‘counters degree myth’, THE article 11 June, Chris Havergal ..............................................................................................................................................6 ‘Mapping the policy influence of Augar: How many of the 53 recommendations have been addressed by the Government?’, 2 June 2021, Rich Pickford, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer and Nottingham Civic Exchange Lead at Nottingham Trent University. .................................6 Poll. Finding an alternative to the category BAME (Black and Asian Minority Ethnic) .......................6 ‘The case for putting foundation years on more stable ground’, Chris Husbands, 20 May 2021. ......7 ‘Graduate employability case studies’, OfS .........................................................................................7 ‘’A geography of employment and earnings’, Office for Students .......................................................7 ‘Improving opportunity and choice for mature students’, Office for Students Insight Brief .................7 Created and produced by Andrew Rawson, Director, Action on Access 2 Equality and diversity data published, Office for Students ..................................................................8 ‘Quality and standards: The road to more rigorous regulation’, OfS ...................................................8 OfS annual report and accounts ..........................................................................................................8 Four reports published 20 May 2021 relating to the evaluation of the Uni Connect Programme, Office for Students ...............................................................................................................................9 'The outlook for outreach' ....................................................................................................................9 Verifying UCAS self-defined care leavers ...........................................................................................9 'Race matters... but CLASS is the biggest barrier', Times article Trevor Phillips ...............................9 ‘How A Student Shadow Board Can Support A Learning Community’, FACE blog, Dr Stéphane Farenga, Director of Student Participation and Success, University of Hertfordshire ......................10 ‘Learn from disabled students so everyone benefits from the digital revolution’, OfS blog. Josh Fleming, Head of Strategy, OfS, 20 May 2021 .................................................................................10 ‘Measuring Disadvantage’, Professor John Jerrim for the Sutton Trust, 14 May 2021 ....................10 ‘An investigation into barriers to student engagement in Higher Education: Evidence supporting 'the psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’, Caroline Sarah Jones, Education Faculty, Manchester Metropolitan University ..................................................................................................10 ‘Is tomorrow’s university system already emerging?’, HEPI blog from Ian Matthias and Mike Boxall (PA Consulting)..................................................................................................................................11 ‘Navigating the Labyrinth’, Socio-economic background and career progression within the Civil Service, Social Mobility Commission ...................................................................................11 Edge Hill University part-time blended learning EdD for professionals working in all education sectors. ..............................................................................................................................................11 What’s Still Current ..............................................................................................................................12 Provider guide to delivering high-quality apprenticeships, ESFA, 1 April 2021 ................................12 ‘Beyond BAME: Rethinking the politics, construction, application and efficacy of ethnic categorisation’, Higher Education Race Action Group ......................................................................12 The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, most recent issue ......................12 Graduate employment and skill guide ...............................................................................................12 Missed this? .........................................................................................................................................13 ‘Supporting student well-being from afar’, THE Campus ..................................................................13 ‘Lifelong options: Improving opportunities for adult learners, supporting local and national prosperity”, OfS event 27 May ...........................................................................................................13 NNECL Quality Mark Launch on Thursday 24 June 2021 ................................................................13 ‘Prevent and address harassment and sexual misconduct’, OfS......................................................13 ‘Our position on antisemitism’, OfS ...................................................................................................13 What’s wanted ......................................................................................................................................14 Understanding who works in WP: survey request.............................................................................14 The Adult Learner, 2022 ‘Measuring success in adult, community and further education’, The Irish Journal of Adult Learning...................................................................................................................14 Data Futures: balancing burden and benefit, Richard Puttock, Director of Data, Foresight and Analysis at the Office for Students ....................................................................................................14 Edge Hill University part-time blended learning EdD for professionals working in all education sectors. ..............................................................................................................................................15 Call for Papers. 'Lessons from digital spaces: opportunities and challenges for widening participation through online learning‘, a special edition of the
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