Widening Participation and Access

Research Associate: Educational Disadvantage and Place, School of Education/Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow

Job Purpose: To make a leading contribution to the project Educational Disadvantage and Place within the Education programme of the ESRC-funded Urban Big Data Centre. Specifically, the job requires expert knowledge in the area of educational disadvantage and/or urban neighbourhoods, and strong proven skills in the quantitative analysis of large data sets.

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Wednesday, 14 December, 2016

Expressive Arts Competition Fund 2016-17

Voluntary Action Fund (VAF) is inviting applications from schools and community-based organisations working with children aged 10 - 11 in Scotland. The application deadline is Monday 16 January 2017.

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Monday, 5 December, 2016

UALL Response - UUK Working in Partnership: Enabling Social Mobility in Higher Education

As you may know, UUK have recently published the report Working in Partnership: Enabling Social Mobility in Higher Education, which is featured below and attached.

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Monday, 17 October, 2016

PASCAL 2016 Conference report: Inclusion strand – providing lifelong learning opportunities for all

The leaders of the five strands of the PASCAL Glasgow Conference monitored the developments at the Conference in their strand. Dr Judith Jenson, the leader of the Inclusion strand has written the attached overview of the Inclusion strand. This strand attracted considerable attention at the conference and confirmed that much remains to be done in combating exclusion and achieving a situation where learning cities are inclusive of all residents in the city.

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Saturday, 16 July, 2016

The Right To Education

Does "Education for All", mean all? What are the barriers to participating in education? How do you include “all” in the classroom?  These are just some of the questions that over 8500 enthusiastic and dedicated people discussed during two successful runs of The Right to Education Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed by the inclusive education team at the University of Glasgow.

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Wednesday, 13 July, 2016

The Right to Education: Breaking Down the Barriers

Following a very successful first run, on the 6th of June the second run of the 'The Right to Education: Breaking down the barriers' free online course will start!

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Wednesday, 18 May, 2016

FACE Conference 2016: Widening participation within the context of economic and social change

The 23rd Annual Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE) Conference will take place on 29th June – 1st July 2016 at the Queen’s University Belfast campus.

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Friday, 15 April, 2016

Policies Supporting Young Adults in their Life Course

We are delighted to announce that researchers with the School of Education at the University of Glasgow are partners within a new project funded by the European Commission within the call of H2020-YOUNG-3-2015 Lifelong learning for young adults: better policies for growth and inclusion in Europe.

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Friday, 11 December, 2015

Researching the Micro and Local in Widening Participation Practice: Seminar 2

The aim of this series is to ground and contextualise discussions of widening participation, which can often be spoken of in largely abstract terms, in considerations of the local and micro practices of WP by focusing on two large and complex cities (Sheffield and London) and on Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland which face different challenges in relation to WP and to the idea of the ‘local’.

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Friday, 4 December, 2015

Researching the Micro and Local in Widening Participation Practice: Seminar 1

The aim of this series is to ground and contextualise discussions of widening participation, which can often be spoken of in largely abstract terms, in considerations of the local and micro practices of WP by focusing on two large and complex cities (Sheffield and London) and on Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland which face different challenges in relation to WP and to the idea of the ‘local’.

Post date: 

Friday, 4 December, 2015

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