Collaborative Projects Team
The Collaborative Projects team is based within the Centre for Academic Partnerships. The team works with a number of sector-level and cross-sector partner organisations to promote higher education access. This includes working with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), charities, businesses, funders, local schools, and other further and higher educational institutions.The team also helps to build sustainable collaborative networks within the region and beyond. The aim of these networks is to support the development of reflective practice among access practitioners in order to contribute to research and policy analysis in the field of widening participation.
Aspire Higher is part of the Office for Students' Uni Connect programme, which aims to increase the number of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into higher education. The programme includes a range of school-based, community-level and online delivery. It is delivered in partnership with the Universities of Hertfordshire and Northampton.
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The Collaborative Projects team engages with a range of evaluation activity as part of its contribution to UoB's Access & Participation Plan (APP) and dedicated Uni Connect targets. This includes attending various internal and external working groups and representing the University of Bedfordshire as member of the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT).
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The Collaborative Projects team leads, partners and advocates for a range of wider and ad-hoc projects. This includes supporting UoB's academic faculties in profiling, evidencing and increasing audience engagement for faculty-led community events.
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Activity delivered by the Collaborative Projects team is underpinned by specific statutory university commitments and priorities.
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