Tag: mentoring
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“Students are facing huge barriers to education” – Spotlight on Safia, University Access Officer
“Our students are facing huge barriers to education”. It’s a tough time to be a young person in the UK. The university access gap is growing, rapidly, putting social mobility opportunities at risk. Students from the most under-resourced backgrounds are almost three times less likely to get into a top university when compared with more… Read more
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Mentorship for University Access: Our mentoring model
“Mentoring is a helping relationship based on an exchange of knowledge, experience, and goodwill.” – David Clutterbuck, 2019 At The Access Project, these words resonate at the core of our university readiness program, where mentoring takes centre stage. In this week’s blog post, we’re exploring our mentoring model. Our expert in-school mentors work with groups… Read more
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What is impactful mentoring? Widening access for higher education
At The Access Project, we pride ourselves on delivering impactful, individualised mentoring, working in partnership with schools to deliver a programme that builds students’ university readiness. With 15 years of experience, we believe strongly in the power of expert mentoring to change young peoples’ lives for the better. In this new blog series, we’re exploring… Read more