As part of the National Networks for Collaborative Outreach (NNCO), the Lincolnshire network, led by the University of Lincoln, has been awarded more than £400,000 to encourage more young people from local schools and colleges to continue their studies to degree level. The NCCO is a new £22 million scheme funded by the Government that will reach 4,300 schools and colleges around the country. Local providers of higher education have come together to form 35 regional networks, ensuring comprehensi...

The University of Derby is celebrating today (January 8) after being awarded funds by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills to lead a new North East Midlands Collaborative Outreach Network, aimed at encouraging young people into higher education. Derby will lead one of thirty-five local networks that will cover the whole of England, and has been allocated £120,000 per year by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for the academic years 2014-15 and 2015-16 to set up...

The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has today welcomed a new £22 million scheme to coordinate the work that universities and colleges do to help attract people from disadvantaged backgrounds to higher education. OFFA and the Higher Education Funding Council for England identified the need for a new approach to collaborative outreach in the national strategy for access and student success, published in April 2014. The new National Networks for Collaborative Outreach scheme will see 35 local network...

A new £22 million scheme involving over 200 higher education institutions and reaching 4,300 secondary schools and colleges aims to encourage more young people into higher education. The National Networks for Collaborative Outreach (NNCO) will deliver a nationally co-ordinated approach to working with schools, universities and colleges to help people access higher education. Local and regional providers of higher education have come together to form the networks, ensuring comprehensive coverage ...

Raising tuition fees to £9,000 has not helped drive improvements in teaching despite the government’s insistence it would improve standards. Read More

The higher education reforms in 2012 resulted in an increase in the fee cap to £9,000, and coincided with a cut in direct grant funding from government to universities. While the evidence shows a higher education degree is an excellent long-term investment – with graduates earning more than non-graduates over their lifetimes, and developing skill sets to benefit their working lives and beyond – the rise in the fee cap has focused attention on whether students are receiving sufficient value for m...

The stereotype has long held that firstborn children go on to be bossy high flyers who leave their younger siblings behind. It’s a cliche some might dispute – from David Miliband, who watched his younger brother snatch the Labour leadership from under his nose, to Hilary du Pré, who saw her burgeoning musical talent eclipsed by her younger sister Jacqueline. Then there was Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who thought his poetry was good until Christina came along, and Jamie Murray, a star tennis player, ...