Connecting the Unconnected

IAU participation in the World Congress on Access to Post-secondary Education
The IAU is pleased to announce that it has just launched a new project designed in order to assist universities to critically examine their policies and practices that promote and improve the provision of equitable access to and ensure success in higher education for all students and most particularly for students from under-represented groups in society. 31 IAU Members from almost as many countries around the world are currently undertaking a Self-Study of all related policies and practices they put in place in order to promote equitable access and success, using a common Self-Study guide developed by the IAU for this purpose.
The Association is linking this activity to the European Access Network’s (EAN) first World Congress on Access to Postsecondary Education (7-10 October, 2013), by organizing an IAU Access and Success workshop bringing together representatives of the institutions participating in the project. Coming together after having undertaken a structured self-review, they will be invited to analyze the opportunities and challenges they experience at the institutional level and suggest ways to address them through collaboration.
To learn more about the project coordinated by Eva Egron-Polak and Élodie Boisfer please do not hesitate to contact them. And in order to learn more about the World Congress and make a proposal, please read the following and/or do not hesitate to visit the World Congress website.