Widening Participation
Bucks works with a number of target schools and colleges in West London, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire to widen participation in higher education. We seek to develop tailored programmes of activity to raise higher education awareness, aspirations and attainment among students from under-represented groups.
We aim to offer a sustained and progressive programme of activities and interventions to promote progression and to support improvements in attainment with students from Y9 to Y13. Key elements of our activity programme:
Student Ambassador led activity
to include:
to include:
Campus visits designed to raise aspirations and to introduce students to higher education
Year 12/13 Higher Education Awareness Days (HEADs)
Subject-specific taster days at the University designed to promote progression to higher education and to introduce students to university learning. Download our HEAD flyer (pdf).
Year 12 Summer School
A residential Summer School designed to promote progression to higher education and to introduce students to life at university.
Advertising Challenge: design and produce your own advert
This residential summer school will be running from 16-18 July 2012 for students that are in year 12 or the first year of further education. Participants will benefit from workshops held in marketing, consumer psychology, filming, editing and production. To find out more, you can download our summer school poster, and then download our summer school application form to complete and return to us.
The University also works in partnership with Oxford Brookes University and The University of Oxford under the Study Higher banner to deliver a broad programme of activity to schools in Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. An overview of these activities can be found on our Study Higher document.
Post-16 progression routes and financing higher education:
6.30pm Thursday 26 April 2012
Bucks New University, High Wycombe Campus
Download the flyer (pdf)
Are you interested in learning more about the different progression routes open to you after GCSE study? Would you like to know more about the changes in student finance for higher education?
Bucks New University, in association with its Study Higher partners: Oxford Brookes University and The University of Oxford will be holding an evening for year 11 students and their parents at the Gateway Lecture Theatre, High Wycombe Campus on Thursday 26 April 2012 at 6.30pm.
There is no cost to attend the event which is open to students and their parents from our partner schools. Book your free place here.
Bucks will award 101 National Scholarships in 2012
These scholarships are designed to support students from lower income backgrounds. Details of the Bucks offer can be found on our National Scholarship Programme at bucks.ac.uk/nsp.
If you would like to learn more about our widening participation work please contact Sally Cushing, Widening Participation Manager by emailing sally.cushing@bucks.ac.uk.
We aim to offer a sustained and progressive programme of activities and interventions to promote progression and to support improvements in attainment with students from Y9 to Y13. Key elements of our activity programme:
Student Ambassador led activity
to include:
- Student life talks
- Campus tours
- Group mentoring
- Higher Education Skills / Higher Education Transition
to include:
- Revision skills and exam techniques
- Portfolio planning
- Post-16 progression pathways
- Why go to university
- UCAS applications and personal statements
- HE Finance and personal budgeting
- Interview techniques
Campus visits designed to raise aspirations and to introduce students to higher education
Year 12/13 Higher Education Awareness Days (HEADs)
Subject-specific taster days at the University designed to promote progression to higher education and to introduce students to university learning. Download our HEAD flyer (pdf).
Year 12 Summer School
A residential Summer School designed to promote progression to higher education and to introduce students to life at university.
Advertising Challenge: design and produce your own advert
This residential summer school will be running from 16-18 July 2012 for students that are in year 12 or the first year of further education. Participants will benefit from workshops held in marketing, consumer psychology, filming, editing and production. To find out more, you can download our summer school poster, and then download our summer school application form to complete and return to us.
The University also works in partnership with Oxford Brookes University and The University of Oxford under the Study Higher banner to deliver a broad programme of activity to schools in Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. An overview of these activities can be found on our Study Higher document.
Post-16 progression routes and financing higher education:
6.30pm Thursday 26 April 2012
Bucks New University, High Wycombe Campus
Download the flyer (pdf)
Are you interested in learning more about the different progression routes open to you after GCSE study? Would you like to know more about the changes in student finance for higher education?
Bucks New University, in association with its Study Higher partners: Oxford Brookes University and The University of Oxford will be holding an evening for year 11 students and their parents at the Gateway Lecture Theatre, High Wycombe Campus on Thursday 26 April 2012 at 6.30pm.
There is no cost to attend the event which is open to students and their parents from our partner schools. Book your free place here.
Bucks will award 101 National Scholarships in 2012
These scholarships are designed to support students from lower income backgrounds. Details of the Bucks offer can be found on our National Scholarship Programme at bucks.ac.uk/nsp.
If you would like to learn more about our widening participation work please contact Sally Cushing, Widening Participation Manager by emailing sally.cushing@bucks.ac.uk.
