EMWPREP had been working alongside HEAT and AHWM on a ‘Gaps Mapping’ exercise to help provide a national picture of WP activity delivery and possibly seek to identify any cold spots where additional support is required.
This project allowed the three organisations tracking outreach delivery to work collaboratively to collate data for the first time, and the resulting report should thus be seen as a first release, enabling the trackers to expose the challenges of mapping...
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EMWPREP News May 2019 // Issue 13
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As partners navigate the new era of Access and Participation Plans, and Phase 2 of NCOP it seems important to assess what each partner requires from EMWPREP moving forward. As such we recently held a strategic planning meeting to discuss potential changes in the EMWPREP provision to meet new expectations and requirements and have developed a list of key priorities for the next 6-12 months. To help deliver these objectives we will be seeking support from partners in setting up operational...
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EMWPREP News March 2019 // Issue 12
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Team Update
We were sad to say farewell to Camellia in February who left the team to pursue a new challenge. In light of the recent A&P guidance along with the announcement of NCOP Phase 2, EMWPREP believe it is an opportune time to look at the EMWPREP staffing structure in line with the needs of the partnership. Details of plans were shared and approved at our recent steering group meeting and roles should be advertised shortly.
We are currently working on the latest HESA dat...
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EMWPREP News January 2019 // Issue 11
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Team Update
Happy New Year to all our readers and what a busy start of the year its been for the EMWPREP team, with NCOP Q8 reporting, preparing from HEI interim reports and working closely with our developer to improve the database for our users.
Alongside which a number of HEI specific evaluations are now underway. This year the evalutions are taking a number of different forms, using multiple evaluation techniques, which hopefully we can share with you in the coming months.
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EMWPREP NEWS – November 2018 // Issue 10
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Team Update
Once again, the annual institutional meetings have come around quickly! During November the EMWPREP team have been busy travelling across the Midlands to meet with partners and set priorities for the year ahead. It was great to catch up with so many of you and lovely to meet some new faces too.
The EMWPREP team are excited for the coming year. With the continual development of the database and the highest number of partners engaging with it yet, th...
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Current Vacancies at The University of Nottingham: Data and Evaluation Manager- Applications close Sunday 9th December 2018
Our partner, The University of Nottingham, are pleased to be able to advertise a full-time post of Data and Evaluation manger.
The role will help the Widening Participation team ensure that all students from all backgrounds are supported to access higher education. The post requires strong statistical analysis and data management skills alongside experience of reporting, data analysis and data quality assurance. The position will help the team to enhance their targeting and data management fo...
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New documents available on EMWPREP Database
We have recently uploaded new information into the "Reports > Documents" section of the database, including bulk upload deadline dates and new participant data collection guidance.
Please familiarise yourself with this information and contact us via the "Help" section with any queries.
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EMWPREP On The Move
From today (Monday 6th August 2018) EMWPREP will have a new office at Loughborough University.
We can be found in:
Hazlerigg Building, Rm 201.0.05
Loughborough University
LE11 3TU
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OfS Blog: Listening to local needs is key to good outreach, says NCOP consortium Higher Horizons+
Tailoring outreach activity to the learners’ specific needs is only possible through close collaboration with schools and students themselves. Higher Horizons+ explain how they’re working to achieve this. Read More.
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EMWPREP NEWS – May 2018 // Issue 7
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Team Update
Congratulations on surviving GDPR month!
Unless you've been living under a rock, you will have noticed that the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force last Friday. As well as flooding our inboxes with emails and giving rise to some really great memes and tweets, the GDPR is a regulation in EU law that has a big effect on the way EMWPREP and our team operates.
Recently, we provided our partners with the ...
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