{"id":5770,"date":"2017-07-20T08:34:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2017-07-26T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:36:57","slug":"widening-participation-guidance-for-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/07\/20\/widening-participation-guidance-for-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Widening Participation:  Guidance for Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/about\/centre-excellence-learning\/our-research\/fair-access\/bu-fair-access-research-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fair Access Research project<\/a> (FAR) has developed some guidance to support admissions staff as they consider applications from widening participation (WP)\u00a0students.<\/p>\n<p>The results of\u00a0a FAR staff survey in 2016 highlighted the key role that the admissions team and faculty admissions staff have to reduce barriers to successful applications for students from a WP background and to empower those students to consider applying to HE. \u00a0The FAR team\u00a0worked with BU colleagues to\u00a0develop this Guidance Document which has been produced to support the admissions staff in the implementation of \u00a0good practice.<\/p>\n<p>The document\u00a0is now being disseminated and embedded within Admissions and the Faculties for their general use<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/07\/Admissions-Guidancefinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Widening Participation: Guidance for Admissions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about BU\u2019s innovative Fair Access Research,\u00a0email the Principal Investigators <a href=\"mailto:vheaslip@bournemouth.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Vanessa Heaslip<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:chunt@bournemouth.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Clive Hunt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5271\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the \u2018Admissions\u2019 theme. One of five themes in the Fair Access Research project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fair Access Research project (FAR) has developed some guidance to support admissions staff as they consider applications from widening participation (WP)\u00a0students. The results of\u00a0a FAR staff survey in 2016 highlighted the key role that the admissions team and faculty admissions staff have to reduce barriers to successful applications for students from a WP background&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/07\/20\/widening-participation-guidance-for-admissions\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Widening Participation:  Guidance for Admissions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}