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December’s Community Voices Webinar welcomes Jae Harris SYCC Manager.
SYCC is a small independent non-government funded charitable organisation at the heart of the Somerford community that aims to meet the needs of young people, their families, and the wider community. SYCC runs youth clubs, activities and other services for young people such as mentoring and mental health support. SYCC runs a community food project called The People’s Pantry – a low-cost service for families who are experiencing food poverty and there is a gym open to the community to use – and so much more.
This month we welcome Mike Graham (Chief Executive Officer) and Tanya Bailey Education, Training & Employment Coordinator from The Lantern Trust.
The Lantern Trust is an independent registered charity that was founded in 1983 to help vulnerable and marginalised people in the Weymouth and Portland area.
The Lantern Trust aims to bring a lasting change in people’s lives through our dedicated service; meeting people’s practical, emotional, and personal aftercare needs. Their ethos is one of social inclusion, and aiming to break cycles of disadvantage and dependency.
This month we welcome Abigail Parkes (she/they), the Marketing, Outreach and Fundraising Coordinator from Beyond Reflections. Beyond reflections is a charity working to create a safe community for trans+ people and their allies, providing support designed with and for the community. They provide a mixture of one to one and group support for gender diverse adults (including those who are questioning) as well as cis people who are struggling with a loved one’s transition. Abigail’s role is to work with the wider community to spread awareness of BR’s services, build relationships and partnerships that help to improve those services, and ensure they are sustainable for many years to come.
https://beyond-reflections.org.uk/
Community voices is a collaboration between BU PIER Partnership and Centre for Seldom Heard Voices to provide a platform and a voice to local community activists.
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Join us for the end of project celebration event for the NIHR funded Trans Aware Cancer Care (TACC) project. Wednesday September 25th 10.45-1.30pm Mast Studios Southampton
This will be an opportunity to see the BU PIER community researcher model in action. Hear how the community researchers captured such deep and rich insights -what worked well, the many lessons learnt, and how the project will inform service developments to reduce health inequalities for the trans+ community.
For more details about the event and to book a place is here is the link:
July’s Community Voices webinar welcomes John Hanson Chair of Trustees Grounded Community and interim CEO of The Parks Foundation
Wednesday July 10th 12-1pm online
With a background in international community development, John has spent the last 8 years helping set up local food growing charity, Grounded Community, in Boscombe. John is keen to see Grounded Community become fully established and embedded into our local community, recognising the huge benefit there is when we grow together.
The Parks Foundation is a small but perfectly formed independent charity devoted to enhancing Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s parks and green spaces for everyone to enjoy, breathing life into our towns and providing our communities with precious spaces to get together, exercise and play
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July’s Community Voices webinar welcomes John Hanson Chair of Trustees Grounded Community and interim CEO of The Parks Foundation
With a background in international community development, John has spent the last 8 years helping set up local food growing charity, Grounded Community, in Boscombe. John is keen to see Grounded Community become fully established and embedded into our local community, recognising the huge benefit there is when we grow together.
The Parks Foundation is a small but perfectly formed independent charity devoted to enhancing Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s parks and green spaces for everyone to enjoy, breathing life into our towns and providing our communities with precious spaces to get together, exercise and play
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This month we welcome Sandra, CEO of Christchurch Community Partnership
Christchurch Community Partnership’s vision is to see social isolation and loneliness eradicated in Christchurch. Although working with the whole adult population, the CCP mainly delivers services and projects to older residents, given that Christchurch has the highest proportion of 65-90 years old in Dorset.
Their objective is to reconnect isolated folk back into community through Lunch Clubs, Coffee Connections and many other activities, where they can build social networks, to improve their quality of life. CCP’s other focus is to bring organisations and groups together to work collaboratively so the community benefits from a wider range of support.
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April’s webinar welcomes Space Youth Project. (rescheduled from March)
do join us…Wednesday April 10th 12-1pm
Space Youth Project aims to support young people who are or may be LGBT+ and empower them to have positive self-esteem, know they are supported, have a sense of community and to overcome issues caused or intensified by prejudice in order to facilitate freedom of expression.
The team at Space Youth Project are keen to share their amazing work and explore ideas for research collaboration around trans identities and neurodivergence and the need for specific LGBT+ groups.
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April’s webinar welcomes Space Youth Project. (rescheduled from March)
Space Youth Project aims to support young people who are or may be LGBT+ and empower them to have positive self-esteem, know they are supported, have a sense of community and to overcome issues caused or intensified by prejudice in order to facilitate freedom of expression.
The team at Space Youth Project are keen to share their amazing work and explore ideas for research collaboration around trans identities and neurodivergence and the need for specific LGBT+ groups.
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March’s webinar welcomes Space Youth Project. Space Youth Project aims to support young people who are or may be LGBT+ and empower them to have positive self-esteem, know they are supported, have a sense of community and to overcome issues caused or intensified by prejudice in order to facilitate freedom of expression.
The team at Space Youth Project are keen to share their amazing work and explore ideas for research collaboration around trans identities and neurodivergence and the need for specific LGBT+ groups.
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February’s webinar welcomes Heather Olive the Age Friendly Community Coordinator for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
In a response to the older population increasing globally The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2010 created an initiative called ‘Age Friendly Communities.’ The aim is that Age Friendly Communities enable people to continue to stay living in their homes, living the life they want to live for as long as possible. Importantly in these communities, older residents help to shape the place that they live. Locally we have built a network of over 80 organisations working towards this common aim. Nationally we share knowledge and best practice through the support of the Centre for Ageing Better.
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February’s webinar welcomes Heather Olive the Age Friendly Community Coordinator for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
In a response to the older population increasing globally The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2010 created an initiative called ‘Age Friendly Communities.’ The aim is that Age Friendly Communities enable people to continue to stay living in their homes, living the life they want to live for as long as possible. Importantly in these communities, older residents help to shape the place that they live. Locally we have built a network of over 80 organisations working towards this common aim. Nationally we share knowledge and best practice through the support of the Centre for Ageing Better.
Community voices is a collaboration between BU PIER partnership and Centre for Seldom Heard Voices to provide a platform and a voice to local community activists.
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December’s community voices webinar welcomes Nick Viney – Dorset farmers ‘Lookout’ coordinator.
The farming community in Dorset had developed a new initiative to encourage people to be ‘Lookouts’ in their local area, watching for signs that other farmers may be experiencing mental health difficulties and encouraging them to talk.
The ‘Dorset Lookouts’ group is made up of people who live and work in the agricultural industry and understand the multiple challenges that farming faces. The Farming Community Network (FCN) is working with the group and providing training and support.
Lookouts are part of the Dorset farming co
mmunity. They receive basic training in recognising the signs of mental ill-health and are supported by FCN.
Do join us to hear from Nick, about the difference this farmer-led initiative is making, and the many challenges that remain.
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December’s community voices webinar welcomes Nick Viney – Dorset farmers ‘Lookout’ coordinator.
The farming community in Dorset had developed a new initiative to encourage people to be ‘Lookouts’ in their local area, watching for signs that other farmers may be experiencing mental health difficulties and encouraging them to talk.
The ‘Dorset Lookouts’ group is made up of people who live and work in the agricultural industry and understand the multiple challenges that farming faces. The Farming Community Network (FCN) is working with the group and providing training and support.
Lookouts are part of the Dorset farming community. They receive basic training in recognising the signs of mental ill-health and are supported by FCN.
Do join us to hear from Nick, about the difference this farmer-led initiative is making, and the many challenges that remain.
Community voices is a collaboration between BU PIER partnership and Centre for Seldom Heard Voices to provide a platform and a voice to local community activists.
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November’s Community Voices webinar welcomes Laney White from Portland Global Friendship Group
When the concept of the Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers was announced in Portland without any public consultation, our local community experienced a groundswell of racist, violent opinion and speech.
A group of local people who were dismayed by this racist intolerance came together through Stand Up To Racism and formed The Portland Global Friendship Group. We were (and are) opposed to the asylum seekers being housed on The Barge but are in full support of the men.
Amongst a sea of hostility we wanted the asylum seekers to know they were welcome within our community.
We have been supporting the asylum seekers through a variety of different ways. We oppose racism on any level but hope we can build bridges within our community by showing kindness and tolerance.
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We have a response from the Government on student accommodation, DSIT is all about the AI research, whole-sector foundation year student statistics are rather damning, we hear from the new Free Speech Tsar, and the BTEC | T level | Advanced British Standard confusion takes the next step as 85 qualifications are defunded.
Parliament has been prorogued ready for the Kings Speech and the new session of Parliament to open on Tuesday 7 November. Carry-over motions were agreed for six Bills, with the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill being of most relevance to universities. In addition, the Renters Reform Bill was introduced but was still awaiting a second reading when this briefing was published (see below for a discussion of that one).
Bills that had not completed the legislative process and for which a carry-over was not agreed have now fallen. They might be brought back, along with the ones that were announced but had not gone forward, including bills on media, audit reform, and mental health.
The King will formally open Parliament on 7 November and in his speech (which is written by the Government) he will announce the Government’s proposed policies and legislation for the coming session. The new session will end when Parliament is dissolved ahead of the general election – which must be held in January 2025 or before.
The House of Commons Library briefing King’s Speech 2023 has lots of useful information, including setting out some potential areas for the 2023-23 new legislative session:
Jonathan Woodhead of Birkbeck College has written a piece for the campaign for Learning on the LLE after the party conference season – lack of clarity seems to be a theme.
Wrapping up the final elements from the 2023 party conference season we highlight the aspects in Labour’s conference most of interest to HE:
George Freeman, DSIT Minister: The UK science, research and innovation economy is not just the ‘golden triangle’ of Cambridge-Oxford-London. It is all around the UK. That is why we have launched our flagship Launchpads programme – and this £75 million investment will support high-growth companies to build the industries of tomorrow – in sectors from renewable energy through to digital health. These Launchpads will play a pivotal role in growing our local economies, creating jobs and levelling up the UK
Professor Arif Ahmed, Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom at the OfS made his inaugural speech at a King’s College London event. He confirmed his role was non-partisan and stated freedom of speech is not the property of one side in any culture war and that the role exists to protect and to promote freedom of speech within the law. On academic freedom Arif stated that data showed academic freedom in the UK had dropped in the last 10 years and now ranks around 60th in the world, below most EU countries. There is lots more in the transcript, it follows the messaging you’d expect from OfS covering the chilling effect and institutions silencing controversial voices.
Smita Jamdar explores how the Middle East conflict challenges free speech principles and practice in an article for Research Professional.
Meanwhile Michelle Donellan, Science Minister, has drawn huge amounts of criticism for intervening to tell UKRI to change its approach to equality and diversity, citing the social media accounts of two members of a committee as symptoms of a much wider problem and calling for the committee to be disbanded. This is a row that is likely to run for a while. James Coe writes for Wonkhe on the exchange of views with links to how the issue unfolded and escalated if you missed it. Regardless of views on whether the Minister should have made comments about the individuals concerned or her criticism is justified (and we express no view on that ourselves), the elision of that issue with a wholesale challenge to the equality and diversity work at UKRI seems unhelpful. The wholesale challenge has been on the agenda for a while, alongside other challenges to what the papers like to call “woke” ideology in universities, but ought perhaps to be treated as a separate and important issue in its own right not at raised the end of an unconnected and different sort of letter – which makes it look less considered than it probably is.
Mental health – by characteristic
OfS published the Meeting the mental health needs of students insight brief examining issues relating to mental health at university. It considers the likelihood students will report mental health conditions by characteristic (age, sex, ethnicity, free school meals and area deprivation measures) and how these affect student outcomes (continuation, completion, attainment, and progression).
Mental health & climate change
Student Minds published the Climate Change and Student Mental Health report which considers curriculum design, leadership, behaviour changes, the impact on specific student groups, the role of government and HEIs:
Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation, said: This fascinating report illustrates the need for universities to offer students practical and constructive ways for them to tackle climate change and wider environmental issues – not only for the good of the planet – but for their own wellbeing too.
Research Professional has a good write up and analysis of the report here.
Student mental health – blogs
Wonkhe has two blogs on student mental health:
The DfE published foundation year student statistics for 2021/22. Bear in mind the Government is currently reviewing HE funding for foundation years in key areas and the presentation of the statistics seems to match their agenda.
Providers, courses and entrants
Foundation year courses have proliferated in the last 10 years with the greatest number of foundation year providers in London and the South East.
In total, there were 105 English providers of foundation years in 2021/22.
Student characteristics
Foundation year students are older, more ethnically diverse, balanced between the genders, and less declare disabilities compared to first year undergraduates.
Outcomes
Students who complete full HE study that commenced through a foundation year have lower graduate outcomes than non-foundation entrants.
The Government’s response to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry on reforming the private rented sector includes information that touches on student tenancies.
The Committee recommended that fixed-term tenancies should be retained for the entire student housing sector and require all landlords letting to students to sign up to one of the existing Government-approved codes of conduct. Long term the Committee called on the Government to replacing existing codes with a single national code of conduct. Also to consider ways to prevent or deter landlords from abusing the exemption such as introducing financial penalties.
The Government response:
Read the full 25-page Government response here.
Renter’s Reform Bill
Wonkhe have a blog: Jim Dickinson reviews the emerging compromise between students and landlords over the Renters (Reform) Bill – and wonders if it will be enough to get the legislation through.
Here’s the latest on the Renter’s Reform Bill discussions taking place in Parliament.
The Bill is being carried over to the next Parliamentary session where it will be considered in depth at Committee Stage. It’s this stage that the real shape of the Bill will begin to emerge.
UUK have a good in-depth briefing on the implications of the Renter’s Reform Bill for students.
Student accommodation costs across 10 cities in the UK: Cost pressures and their consequences in Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (HEPI Report 166) provides an authoritative picture of student living, conducted in response to the unprecedent rent rises and supply issues witnessed over the past two academic years. It includes data voluntarily submitted by both universities and the 10 largest providers of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation operating across ten major regional university cities who collectively manage more than 125,000 beds in those cities (including Bournemouth).
Consequences
Policy implications and recommendations (from main report):
Student maintenance system
Affordability and financial intervention
Wonkhe blogs on the topic:
Dr Jo Saxton, Ofqual’s Chief Regulator, wrote to HEIs to communicate grading arrangements for England’s 2023/24 admission cycle. It notes the 2-year transition to pre-pandemic grading is complete and normal grading arrangements will continue for GCSE, AS and A levels in 2024. Meaning national results in 2024 are expected to be ‘broadly similar’ to those of the summer of 2023. Grading arrangements for vocational and technical qualifications will continue as normal with awarding organisations adopting the same approach for the academic year 2023 to 2024 as they did previously.
The DfE published three data releases on the destinations of key stage 4 and 5 students in 2021/22. The releases cover whether students go into apprenticeship, education and employment destinations, and whether they progress to HE. All three data sets are available here.
The data release covering progression to higher education or training look at the percentage of level 3 pupils continuing to a sustained education or training destination at level 4 or higher in the two years after they completed their 16 to 18 study back in 2019/20.
The proportion of students that progressed to a sustained level 4 or higher destination was 68.3% (+2.3%); of the 68.3%:
Disadvantage
Gender
Ethnicity
Region
Previous provider type
You can find the full data release on progression to HE here.
The DfE has also published data on 16-18 destination measures detailing students who left 16-18 study in 2020/21 and follows their destinations in 2021/22. Excerpt: Disadvantaged students were more likely to stay in further education and less likely to progress to higher education: While 45.8% of non-disadvantaged students leaving 16 to 18 education progressed directly to higher education, the rate for the disadvantaged group was 35.6%. On the other hand, 7.7% of disadvantaged students continued in further education, compared to 6.1% of all other students.
Finally, there is also information on key stage 4 destination measures.
Rishi’s announcement that T levels will be defunded when (if) Britain moves to the Advanced British Standard put the DfE in a bit of quandary as to whether to continue the (unpopular) cancellation of BTECs that are gradually being replaced by T levels or whether to have a serious rethink. After a quick ponder the DfE are moving ahead and continuing to pull back from BTECs (and similar technical qualifications) and have published the final list of 85 qualifications assessed to overlap with wave 3 T Levels. The overlap occurs in these areas:
The Government will withdraw public funding from these qualifications, for new starters, from August 2025.
Universities and Skills Minister Halfon has issued a written ministerial statement announcing the changes. It points out that of the 85 qualifications – 30 didn’t have any current enrolments and another 23 had fewer than 100 enrolments in the 2020/21 academic year. Although given that parents knew these qualifications were about to be dumped there is a question over the chicken and egg here!
Moving onto the Advanced British Standard (ABS) Education Secretary Gillian Keegan published a written ministerial statement on the Government’s proposals. She confirmed the Government would provide £600 million over the next two years to prepare for the ABS, consisting of:
Keegan stated the Government will consult extensively over the coming months on the design of the new qualification with the consultation resulting informing a White Paper to be published during 2024.
Wonkhe report that since the ABS was announced student enthusiasm for T levels has waned. They have a blog: As demand for “gold standard” T levels atrophies in the face of news that they’ll be replaced, Johnny Rich laments an obsession with killing off BTECs.
Social Mobility
HEPI published The English Social Mobility Index which compares the performance of (English) HEIs was published. Research Professional set to the Index and have questions in this good article: Mobility Issues. Excerpts:
Read more here.
Service Children
NEON cover the new report which analyses universities’ APP plans: Under the Radar – Service Children in the UK today, highlighting that only a quarter of universities (10% drop since 2000) in England have strategies in place to support Service children to progress to HE and these numbers may fall over the next year. Read more here. You can also access a recording of the event covering service children. And Graeme (from NEON) writes for Wonkhe: Children from military families have worse progression rates into higher education. Graeme Atherton argues that they should be a target group for access work.
Neurodiverse students
Wonkhe blog – As retention rates for autistic students are lower than any other disability group, Helen Guyatt explains what could be done to help – and what incentives there are for institutions to do so.
China
The Lords Chamber debated the long-term strategic challenges posed by China. The Government’s approach to protecting Chinese students from undue pressure on political issues was criticised and Lord Stirrup questions mechanisms that could effectively be used to protect students including monitoring interactions students have with their own government.
There’s also a Wonkhe blog that may be of interest: Glen Noble explains how UK universities need to develop their own risk management processes for collaborating with China – especially when it comes to sensitive research areas.
International Growth
Lord Jo Johnson has spoken out (again, same messages) on restricting further international student growth and the need for universities to diversify their portfolio.
Wonkhe report: Speaking at a Universities UK International conference yesterday, Johnson said the sector is “reaching the political limits” of tolerance for higher numbers – because of dropout rates among Indian and Bangladeshi students of “approaching 25 per cent”, and questions over students’ ability to support themselves. Reflecting on accusations that universities were “selling immigration into the UK rather than education, he called on universities to take “collective action to weed out poor quality and fraudulent applications”.
There is full coverage in the Financial Times.
Health surcharge
Wonkhe report that the Home Office has published an equality impact assessment for the forthcoming increase to the Immigration Health Surcharge, which for students and their dependants (the discounted rate) will rise from £470 to £776 per person per year. It shows that the disparity between the median weekly wage for younger and older migrants may mean that students see higher impacts from the increase to the charge, making saving to pay the Health Charge more difficult.
Digital experience: UUK report on the JISC staff digital experience insights survey 2022/23 covering perceptions of HE teaching staff to technology and its potential in teaching.
However, the survey also shows that teaching staff need more time and encouragement when it comes to improving their digital skills, with nearly half (49%) rating support for teaching effectively online as average or below average.
Kathryn Heywood, Head of Business Intelligence at Jisc said: This year’s student digital experience insights survey shows that HE students find online learning more engaging and motivating since 2020, and they have reaped the benefits of teaching staff working hard to improve their practice. What’s clear from this year’s staff survey, is that teachers need more dedicated support from the organisation to focus on their digital skills.
Digital enabling: Wonkhe and Kortext published Setting the curve – deploying technology for learning, teaching, and student success looking at how to deploy technology to support longer term learning, teaching, and student success strategies. Excerpt: in making technology part of the solution universities must also ask some searching questions: about the degree of digital capability required of staff and students; about what “hybrid” work and learning should look like and why; about the interaction of the digital and physical estate; and, crucially, about the nature of the spaces available for being critical about technology adoption, and how the conversation about technology moves forward. Read more here.
Other Wonkhe blogs:
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General Election: The Times reported that the Government has been advised not to call the general election for November due to security concerns should the campaigning period align with America’s (fixed) November presidential election. The Times quotes an official as saying There are huge security and market implications if two Five Eyes countries are holding elections at once. It could potentially open up two countries to cyberwarfare and electoral manipulation from hostile states and if a security threat were to arise during a campaign it would leave western countries exposed. With a second Whitehall source stating: Far more care would have to be taken around national security and meddling from hostile countries. The Times also reports that Labour are preparing for a May election. The last possible date the UK election can be held on is 28 January 2025.
HE growth: Wonkhe blog – On the tenth anniversary of David Willetts’ 2013 Robbins Revisited report, David Kernohan wonders if it still stands up.proroSubscribe!
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