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LCPS has developed an integrated strategy for widening participation which aims to:
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Strengthen coordination between current activities such as the services provided by the college student support network, and activities undertaken as a result of its learning, teaching and widening participation initiatives.
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Ensure dissemination of best practice.
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Facilitate the development of collaborative initiatives.
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Broaden participation activity at LCPS is concentrated on five main themes:
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- Recruitment
- Retention
- Progression
- Broadening access
- Employability
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Recruitment
- Enhance the college's monitoring and analysis of student recruitment, retention, participation by regularly accessing employment statistics.
- Increase student numbers by aligning the range of programmes on offer with the demands of employers.
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Continue to develop links with educational and non-educational partners to recruit students and pursue joint provision objectives.
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Increase the number of employing organisations who sponsor individuals on college courses.
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Increase enrolment onto certificate and diploma programmes.
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Increase recruitment levels of overseas students to form a truly multi-cultural student community.
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College analysis of student retention data has revealed that students are most likely to drop out within the first year of study, and their reasons for withdrawal are, in the main, not academic but personal, owing to changes in domestic or financial circumstances.
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LCPS aims to minimize withdrawal by providing a supportive and stimulating working environment for students, many of whom are already challenged by the conflicting demands of financial and domestic responsibilities. This will be achieved by:
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Reviewing the network of support services to ensure that the college is offering the support required by its students.
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Providing support and development for staff so that they are able to offer suitable guidance to students.
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Increasing the flexibility in study methods.
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Promoting excellence in teaching.
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Progression
- Clarify the progression routes between courses.
- Implement the set of standard practices for credit transfer and the arrangements for degree classification which will be agreed upon by the degree awarding authorities.
- Develop the link between student experience in work and family and their learning experience at LCPS by giving credit for previous academic study and relevant life experience.
Widening access
LCPS already supports students and is now looking to widening access further by:
- Continuing to develop flexible and innovative teaching methods to attract students from a range of educational, social and cultural backgrounds.
- Developing flexible study modes and methods.
- Improving the advice and guidance services offered to potential students.
- Improving the personal and career development support offered to students.
- Arranging staff development events and workshops to raise awareness of student needs.
Employability
LCPS intends to develop its links with businesses and the community so as to:
- Develop an understanding of customer needs using alumni and existing business links to identify the needs of employers and to use this material to inform constructively the development of new programmes.
- Build on LCPS capacity to respond with alacrity to external needs by proposing changes to existing systems eg course development and approval procedures.
- Develop further LCPS capability to extend provision both in terms of refocusing the course portfolio and introducing more flexible attendance.
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