2.8 Universities and Higher Education


2.8.1. Universities

2.8.1.1.   Ensure that all Universities work to widen participation across the sector, prioritising early intervention in schools and colleges.  This will include running summer schools and setting up mentoring programmes between students or alumni and school pupils.

2.8.1.2. All Universities will be required to be transparent about their selection criteria.

2.8.1.3 Work with Universities to develop a comprehensive credit accumulation and transfer framework to help students transfer between and within institutions, thus enabling part-time learning and accumulation over a lifetime of learning.