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Higher Education Performance Indicators

海角直播 is the second most successful university in England in attracting young people from neighbourhoods where traditionally people have not entered higher education (23% of its students coming from these neighbourhoods).

Only Sunderland has a higher percentage of its young full-time undergraduates coming from low participation neighbourhoods (30%). 海角直播 also has a high percentage of its first-degree students completing their studies. It has made a one per-cent improvement on last year and this places 海角直播鈥檚 projected success rate in the top half of the English modern universities.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Derek Fraser, said: 鈥淭aken together these two key Performance Indicators published today by the Higher Education Funding Council demonstrate that 海角直播 is widening participation, particularly attracting younger students, and at the same time improving the projected rate of success for our first degree students. This is a double success story for 海角直播 and comes after a string of excellent teaching quality assessments earlier this year for our Health and Design courses.鈥�

鈥淭he Performance Indicators are conclusive evidence that the students and staff at the University of 海角直播 are succeeding in both widening participation and increasing the number of students gaining an award.鈥�

Asked what is the reason for 海角直播鈥檚 success, Professor Fraser said: 鈥淚 think the figures show we are responding well to the Government鈥檚 wish to encourage a wider mix of young people to enter higher education. Our schemes with local school children like the Meteor Programme, which starts by targeting primary school children, demonstrate that 海角直播 is committed to doing even more in the future to encourage more students from low participation neighbourhoods like central and east Middlesbrough to come into higher education. We also believe that the University of 海角直播 provides a positive and supportive environment, which has improved enormously over the last ten years thanks to a 拢50m programme of campus improvements - new library, new IT facilities, new student centre.

鈥淥f course, we are delighted by today鈥檚 endorsement of our work. It confirms what we have always believed as the Opportunity University that widening access can go hand in hand with quality and success.鈥�

Among the important initiatives helping to underpin 海角直播鈥檚 widening participation strategy is the Summer College. This provides a range of programmes in June/July/August, which act as a bridge to university for people who need to top up their knowledge and skills before starting their degree or diploma courses. There is also a very active student support service within the University, which offers help and guidance on a wide range of non-academic issues, including student finance.

Key Point: The Performance Indicators are a major achievement by all concerned at 海角直播 and the latest figures are not only a one per-cent improvement on last year鈥檚 Performance Indicators but also place 海角直播鈥檚 projected success rate among the top half of the English modern universities.鈥�

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