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Attainment and Progression of Students from Underrepresented Groups
Annette Hayton, Head of Widening Participation
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STATE SCHOOL %
NSEC 4-7 % LPN%
ENGLAND 89.2 33.3 11.1
BATH 74.8 17.2 5.4
BATH PFI 78.4 20.7 7
BRISTOL 59.4 14.3 3.3
UWE 92.4 31.5 14.1
HESA TABLE 1B 2012/13 (Polar 3) Participation of under-represented groups in higher education young UK domiciled full-time undergraduates
A National Problem
Key reports• Non-continuation rates at English HEIs (2013/07)
• Higher education and beyond (2013/15)
• HE indicators for FECs (2013/18)
• Postgraduate education in England and NI (2013/14)
• Student Ethnicity (2010/13)
Source: Sarah Howls (2014) HEFCE presentation on Higher Education and beyond: Widening participation beyond the student lifecycle,Developing your Access Agreement for 2015/16 Conference.
Retention of students from low participation neighbourhoods (LPNs)Difference between proportion of young entrants no longer in HE after one year, and benchmark proportion, by POLAR 3 classification
Source: Sarah Howls (2014) HEFCE presentation on Higher Education and beyond: Widening participation beyond the student lifecycle,Developing your Access Agreement for 2015/16 Conference.
Qualification and progression outcomes for students from LPNs Percentage point difference of the outcome from the sector-adjusted average for each of the four outcomes, split by POLAR3 quintile.
Source: Sarah Howls (2014) HEFCE presentation on Higher Education and beyond: Widening participation beyond the student lifecycle,Developing your Access Agreement for 2015/16 Conference.
Retention of BAME students Difference between the proportion of entrants who are no longer in HE after one year, and benchmark proportion, by ethnic origin.
Source: Sarah Howls (2014) HEFCE presentation on Higher Education and beyond: Widening participation beyond the student lifecycle,Developing your Access Agreement for 2015/16 Conference.
Qualification and progression outcomes for BAME studentsPercentage point difference of the outcome from the sector-adjusted average for all four outcomes, split by ethnicity
Source: Sarah Howls (2014) HEFCE presentation on Higher Education and beyond: Widening participation beyond the student lifecycle,Developing your Access Agreement for 2015/16 Conference.
Black and minority ethnic student achievement
2008/9 2009/0 2010/1 2011/2 2012/360%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
% Achieving First/2:i
UoB BAME
UoB Non-BAME
Comparator BAME
Comparator Non-BAME
The proportion of students at Bath achieving a first or upper-second class degree in each academic year 2008/9 to 2012/3, grouped by ethnicity (BAME = Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic).
A complex issue
A growing body of evidence confirms that ‘even after controlling for the majority of factors which we would expect to have an impact on attainment, being from a minority ethnic community…is still statistically significant in explaining final attainment’ (Broecke and Nichols, 2007:3).
Ethnicity per se is almost certainly not the effective variable influencing students’ academic attainment. Rather, it is a proxy for other factors that have yet to be identified
Professor John Richardson, Professor in Student Learning & Assess,
Open University