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Rethinking access
Emilie Sundorph, Researcher
@ESundorph
Louis Coiffait, Head of Education
@LouisMMCoiffait
Reform
@ReformThinkTank
Agenda
> Introducing Reform
> Report summary – Joining the elite
> Politics and what’s next
> Q&A
Introducing Reform
> Independent and non-partisan Westminster think tank
> Our mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity
Joining the elite: how top universities can
enhance social mobility
> Increasing access at high-tariff institutions – why?
“Some institutions see WP
spending as a tax”
Joining the elite: how top universities can
enhance social mobility
> Where has progress been made and how?
> Our research approach; o HESA data, o access agreements, o admissions policies, o OFFA spending data, o FOIs,o and interviews
> Built an access ‘league table’ of high-tariff institutions…
Joining the elite: how top universities can
enhance social mobility
> The outlier, LSE
“Any institution that takes WP seriously has to consider
contextualised admissions”
Joining the elite: how top universities can
enhance social mobility
> Defining contextualised admissions, a ‘spectrum’ of options
Joining the elite: how top universities can
enhance social mobility
> What else works?
> Where do funds go exactly? > And how can we measure success?
Joining the elite: how top universities can
enhance social mobility
> More uniform and detailed reporting of spending
> Using tracking services to make more specific aims for working with younger ages
> Understanding approaches to and outcomes of contextualised admissions
The wider political context, what next?
> Fees based on future earnings, properly benchmarked?
> Universities ‘awash with cash’ says Sunday Times
> Objections to contextualisedadmissions?
> Renewed focus on ‘skills / FE’still coming?
> Still pressure to sponsor schools, or other forms of partnership?
> Labour’s NES?
Joining the elite – Q&A
Emilie Sundorph and Louis Coiffait