National Strategy For Access And Student Success

Due to be launched in autumn 2103 the National Strategy for Access and Student Success – in England - has still not been published. The strategy, jointly developed by HEFCE and OFFA, was designed to provide a framework for universities and colleges with Access Agreements to develop their own five-year institutional strategies. Neither have we seen the guidance for production of the 2015/16 Access Agreement which was scheduled for publication on 23 January. Of course effective delivery of a strategy is dependent on resources and, with BIS suffering budget reductions, we can only surmise that cuts in funding are the reason for the delay. If members have information on the situation in the rest of the UK it would be very interesting to hear as these cuts could have a significant impact on our work. More...