Outreach/Widening Participation

The dictionary definition of outreach refers to surpassing, outwitting or the act of ‘reaching out'. The Funding Councils see it as "widening access and improving participation in higher education...... to equip people to operate productively within the global knowledge economy. It also offers social benefits, including better health, lower crime and a more tolerant and inclusive society".

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Outreach

Outreach and the Centre 

Here at the Centre, whilst reaching out to widen access is an important part of our agenda, we see outreach activities as primarily being targeted at improving the recruitment and retention of students and more recently, playing a key role in promoting "strategic and vulnerable subjects" e.g. Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics plus Computing.

Events

The Centre has hosted Outreach in Collaboration meetings in collaboration with CELS (Centre for Effective Learning in Science). The presentations from this event can be found in the events archive. 

Resources

The Centre has produced a Chemistry Box and Physics Box which contain resources for lecturers to take into schools with the aim of enthusing potential students. These include resources such as posters, videos, simple practicals, information (about salaries/ careers etc). If you would like a copy of these please contact the Centre.

There are also a set of case studies (in pdf format) from the collaboration HESTEM project run by CELS:

  Problem Based Learning Masterclasses

  Gratzel Cells

  Loughborough School Design Challenge

  Spectroscopy in a Suitcase

  Voting Systems

  Seeing the Unseeable

 

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Resources

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