PURSUE would like to invite colleagues and supporters to our latest online event on 10th December: ‘Making university truly accessible to working class people’ and to launch our new PURSUE podcast ‘The Open Circle’.
Tag Archives: University access
Unlocking Opportunity: Accessing Higher Education with a Criminal Record
Charlotte Brooks Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham A criminal record can be devastating, lifelong and far outweigh the harm caused by the official punishment itself. For instance, people with a criminal record can be subjected to discrimination within employment and experience challenges when accessing housing and education. Yet restricted access to opportunities and basic rightsContinue reading “Unlocking Opportunity: Accessing Higher Education with a Criminal Record”
Let them eat data: Education, widening participation and the digital divide
The Quest for Answers As an education sector we like answers, answers for everything, right or wrong. Sometimes we’re more concerned with arriving at an answer, than we are with ensuring it tackles the issue addressed by the question. Widening HE participation is led by policy that dictates which answers we provide to what questionsContinue reading “Let them eat data: Education, widening participation and the digital divide”