UniConnect- The Impact and the Future.
Over 1 million learners have engaged with UniConnect partnerships between 2017 and 2021 in England. Over half of all schools and colleges in England were involved with a Uni Connect partnership in 2020-21.
Uni Connect is a free service funded by the government. It helps young people – especially those from groups who are less likely to go to university – to explore routes into higher education, as well as highlighting the benefits and realities of these options.
It does this through partnerships between local universities, colleges, schools, employers and charities.
Find out more about the national Uni Connect programme and what it has to offer on the Uni Connect website.
What is Uni Connect doing?
Making a difference to young people’s lives – Greater engagement in Uni Connect activities results in learners being better informed about higher education. Sustained engagement has been shown to have a positive impact on short, medium and long-term outcomes for learners.
Supporting collaboration – Uni Connect partnerships have built lasting connections with schools and colleges by working collaboratively. Higher education providers and schools can work with Uni Connect partnerships to deliver cohesive and effective higher education outreach and attainment-raising activities.
Shaping future support for pre-16 attainment – Read the new attainment raising toolkit designed to help partnerships and higher education providers deliver effective attainment-raising interventions in partnership with schools.
Building strong, sustained, strategic partnerships between universities and schools – Schools and colleges have said that Uni Connect outreach activities are high quality and offer something different to other outreach provision in terms of its impartiality, level of support provided, range and quality of activities. UniConnect partnerships have effective networks of partnerships and relationships in their regions.
How has Uni Connect benefited learners so far?
• See the Uni Connect annual report.
• Visit the Uni Connect webpages to find out more.
From 2017 to 2022 the Humber Outreach Programme (HOP) the Humber’s UniConnect worked with 43 Schools and Sixth Form Colleges and 10 FE Colleges. 96,583 students have been involved with HOP since 2017 with HOP delivering 43,324 activities. 92% of students who applied to HE who took part in our activities were offered a place. HOP is proud to contribute towards this initiative to benefit future generations of students from a range of diverse backgrounds.
HOP also have had some of there success stories featured on the Office for Students website showcasing our work and praising our positive relationships with schools and colleges. You can access that here.
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