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Access and participation: Building an evidence base of ‘what works’
By FACE / January 7, 2021
In this blog, Jo Astley and Dan West respond to the Office for Students' (OfS) challenge to universities to prioritise...
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Providing students with targeted additional support through Covid-19
By FACE / January 7, 2021
No one could deny how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated society’s structural inequalities, with marginalised and disadvantaged communities hardest hit....
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New report: The Higher Education Journey of Young London Residents
By FACE / January 6, 2021
A warm welcome to the seventh report in a series providing analysis and insight into the higher education journey of...
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FACE webinar: Are we providing the right careers support to our WP students?
By FACE / December 7, 2020
Are we really providing relevant and suitable careers and employability support to our widening participation students? Bringing together experts in...
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Remembering Professor Jim Gallacher
By FACE / December 7, 2020
On Saturday 31 October this year, a great Scotsman died. Professor Jim Gallacher, for some four decades, was a driving...
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Care to Study? Supporting care experienced young people in Wales into HE and beyond
By FACE / December 7, 2020
In Wales, as in the rest of the UK, those with experience of the care system are underrepresented in higher...
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Bullying is not fun, or funny: It’s fundamentally harmful
By FACE / November 6, 2020
Anti-bullying week takes place this year from 16-20 November 2020. This year the theme is 'United Against Bullying'. Follow the...
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Evaluation and policymaking: Creative and interdependent
By FACE / November 6, 2020
I have seen a few Twitter threads recently highlighting the coincidence (or not) that many evaluators have a background in...
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FE Reform: New opportunities, established partnerships?
By FACE / November 5, 2020
The nature and shape of how we think about ‘tertiary education’ is changing. Arguably, the debate about Further and Higher Education,...
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Pivoting to online teaching: A mini case study of how faculty staff embraced technology on their own terms
By FACE / October 5, 2020
Back in April, Michael Hill took to the FACE blog to ask how well are our universities equipped to engage...
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A year like no other for university admissions – until next year
By FACE / October 5, 2020
Students embarking on higher education courses in Autumn 2020 have overcome challenges which were unimaginable at the UCAS application deadline...
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Praxis makes perfect: Developing research-informed widening participation practice
By FACE / September 4, 2020
In this article, Chris Bayes and Martin Walker at Lancaster University share a case study of applying research-informed practice in...
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Enhancing ‘possible selves’ through coaching: A tool for fair access and participation
By FACE / September 4, 2020
Despite progress being made across the sector to close the gaps in equality of opportunity to access higher education (HE),...
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FACE webinar series on mature and part-time learners in the pandemic: Session one materials
By FACE / August 10, 2020
Webinar one In our first webinar on 20 July, Ann-Marie Karadia from the Quality Assurance Agency and Dr. John Butcher...
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If the ‘niche activism’ supports the community and helps widen participation – count us in
By FACE / August 10, 2020
An untimely attack on Students' Unions ‘The funding of student unions should be proportionate and focused on serving the needs...
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Communities: A renewed priority for outreach?
By FACE / July 6, 2020
Outreach work has never been easy but is currently under pressure as never before. Higher education providers are urgently refreshing...
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Bend me, shape me: The need for flexible pedagogies in HE is clearer than ever
By FACE / July 6, 2020
Most universities remain insufficiently flexible in meeting the needs of all learners The period since lockdown was introduced in the...
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Why widening participation matters more than ever: View from the Scottish HE sector
By FACE / June 9, 2020
Supporting and increasing access for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds is more important than ever. No learners will be left unscathed...
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Working from home as a Widening Participation Graduate Intern
By FACE / June 8, 2020
Adapting to working from home as a Graduate Intern has been both challenging and rewarding; it is not something that...
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Understanding the educational trajectories of young people from target wards
By FACE / June 3, 2020
In this post, Dr Neil Raven discusses the findings of a recent piece of research exploring the educational trajectories of...
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