unifish is a simple, impartial guide to higher education when you need a little more support, launched by Aimhigher London. It is our one stop guide to the Disability and Wellbeing support offered at higher education providers across London. It is a fully searchable and filterable website in multiple ways including by type of support
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Celebrate and explore International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with our interactive Oracy Skills Online worksheet Feisty Females designed last summer. It contains interesting facts, highlights key female activist voices from the Pankhurst’s’ to Malala, women’s rights timeline and suggested activities for learners to explore issues that they would like to challenge and stand up for!
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Welcome to the Winter Aimhigher London newsletter; an online update of Aimhigher programme areas and latest developments for all our members. Find out about a public consultation on a new approach to the Uni Connect Programme, partnership developments including with parents and interactive resources and our university life game. Click here to view the latest
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The winners are in! Aimhigher London recognises the work of practitioners going above and beyond to achieve outstanding outreach! We’re celebrating virtually the achievement, and endeavour of staff within schools, colleges, universities and Local Authorities who go that extra mile in the spirit of widening participation at our Third Annual Aimhigher Practitioner Awards. The Awards
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As part of the Uni Connect programme, teachers and advisors are invited to join a free virtual conference on Monday 22nd June, which will focus on increasing higher education and careers opportunities for your students within the context of COVID-19 and beyond. The conference aims to develop delegates’ knowledge and confidence to support students’ decisions
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Last week, we officially launched the Uni Connect programme for our new Year 9 cohort in Sutton. The launch event is a great opportunity to invite learners and their families to hear more about the programme and meet the team, but also to meet other young people taking part locally. The event featured a line-up
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Coping with Cuts: Doing More with Less Aimhigher London SEND CPD annual conference 2020 50 delegates attended the Aimhigher London SEND CPD event on Wednesday 5th February at Kingston University, 10-4.00 pm. This event was sponsored by Microlink. Participants comprised of school, college and university sector providers and representatives from local authorities Aim: To provide practitioners
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The Office for Students’ university outreach programme, Uni Connect (formally the National Collaborative Outreach Programme) is celebrating the latest batch of sixth formers who are off to university in October. Kieran, a participant in the programme, is in the second year of the sixth form at Carshalton Boys Sports College in Sutton. He’s been taking
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Hi, I’m Harrison and a student ambassador at the University of Roehampton, studying Education. I work on the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) which is a project which aims to increase the progression of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds from Years 9 to 13 into higher education. Over the summer, I was fortunate enough to
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Our NCOP team, Mark, Justine and Kirsty, along with student ambassador Harrison from the University of Roehampton, attended the national NCOP conference, Making Change through Collaboration, in Birmingham last week. The conference was an opportunity for representatives from across the programme to share best practice, reflect on the impact of the programme so far with
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