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News and Information
2008 LIFE National Conference
Tackling the targeting issue: Practical approaches to identifying the target cohort.
On the 29th May 2008 The Aimhigher in LIFE partnership held a one day conference on targeting at the Bournemouth Marriot Highcliff Hotel. The day brought together local and national colleagues across sectors and gave them the opportunity to listen to and discuss the issues surrounding the new targeting guidelines published by HEFCE for 2008-11.
As well as presentations from local and national colleagues the day contained interactive sessions that gave delegates the chance to become politicians as well as experiencing the 'real life' situation of coding student feedback forms to establish whether they were from a target group or not.
Feedback from the day demonstrated that delegates enjoyed the day and found it useful, despite the unexpected fire alarm!!
Feedback included:
- 'Really good, please do another event'
- 'Thank you, a very well organised and interesting event - very relevant to my work'
- 'Thank you - one of the most useful conferences I have attended recently'
Measuring Progress: Aimhigher Evidence Event
Manchester 22nd November 2007
The team will be running a workshop at this national event on the challenges of collecting and evaluating targeting data to ensure we meet new HEFCE guidelines.
Summary of discussion groups - PDF 139kb 
Action on Access e-bulletin
The team recently wrote an article on the challenges of collecting social class data for the monthly Action on Access e-bulletin. To the read the full article please select the link http://www.actiononaccess.org/download.php?f=513
Ambassadors training
The team recently ran a training session for new student ambassadors on the importance of evaluation and their crucial role in gathering reliable data from our Aimhigher students. To view the PowerPoint presentation please select the link below.
Ambassadors Training PowerPoint Presentation – PPT 156 kb
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