Higher education institutions often espouse broad aims for widening participation and increasing diversity in their student population, but they grapple with the operational challenges of what this ...

Increasing access to and participation in higher education for disadvantaged students is a key priority for the Australian government and many others around the world. Working with ...

The purpose of widening participation is to remove the barriers to higher education faced by students from lower income and under-represented backgrounds. At LSE a dedicated team runs schemes for ...

Our Widening Participation team work with non-selective, state funded schools and colleges, in particular with students from backgrounds under-represented in higher education and/or at a high-tariff ...

Manchester students and junior doctors played a key role in a recent Widening Participation Conference for medical students. The event saw 96 students and staff from 36 medical schools in the UK ...

What is the Manchester Access Programme? The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is the University’s central widening participation scheme for local Year 12 students in Greater Manchester. We aim to ...