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College HE and Higher
Vocational Education
Project
Outline and Progress
Professor John Storan – Director,
Continuum UEL
AoC Conference 20 November 2013
Project Aims understanding the issues
• Applicant Behaviour
– Why CHE part time HE student enrolments have decreased
– What intervention options could be identified to assist
government in assessing viable solutions.
• Barriers to CHE Expansion
– Examine the contractual, funding and validation
arrangements of CHE to assess what impact these factors
have on the scope for CHE to act as agents in the HE
market
– Explore what measures could be introduced to support
further provider entry and expansion.
Objectives – Building the Evidence
Base
• Establish the quantity and extent of part time and full
time college HE,
• Establish future ambitions of CHE
• Student perspective - reasons for decline in
recruitment to p/t HE in FE courses
• Employer perspective - reasons for decline in
recruitment to p/t HE in FE courses
• Identify future College HE plans, to more fully
understand ambitions for HE expansion or contraction;
• Identify barriers and constraints for College HE
expansion;
Approach – Working with the
Stakeholders
• Rapid review of the literature and policy documents
(including College plans
• Analysis of enrolment and demographic data from
research sites (30 colleges)
• Survey of applicants (exact population to be
established once research sites identified)
• Survey of CHE providers
• Survey of employers
• Interviews with employers
• Interviews with CHE providers (30-45 interviews)
• Focus Groups with applicants
Progress and Challenges (Phase 1)
• Phase 1 (June 2013- July 2014) Phase 2 (July
2014- July 2015)
• Dr Arti Saraswat Senior Research Fellow (College
HE) + Dr Anne Thompson as a project advisor
• Project literature Review completed
• Data Specification finalized
• Research instrument in preparation
• First Steering Group meeting held
• Second Steering Group meeting December 2013
Project contact information
Dr Arti Saraswat
Senior Research Fellow
Continuum
University of East London
London E16 2RD
Tel: 020 8223 2162
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web:
www.uel.ac.uk/continuum
Tony Hudson
Research Manager
Continuum
University of East London
London E16 2RD
Tel: 020 8223 7772
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web:
www.uel.ac.uk/continuum