CWP Research seminar Enabling access to university – at university? An Australian approach Dr Barry Hodges
This event took place on 3rd November 2010 at 1:00pm (13:00 GMT)
This paper will present a portrait of the Open Foundation Program of the University of Newcastle, Australia, a highly successful University-based enabling (widening participation program of a type which seems to be uncommon in the UK. It will provide some thoughts on its paths to success and some beginning reflections on differences with the UK approach to widening participation in order to raise some comparative questions about widening participation pathways.
This paper will present a portrait of the Open Foundation Program of the University of Newcastle, Australia, a highly successful University-based enabling (widening participation program of a type which seems to be uncommon in the UK. It will provide some thoughts on its paths to success and some beginning reflections on differences with the UK approach to widening participation in order to raise some comparative questions about widening participation pathways.
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