#THELIVE kicking off with @michelledonelan announcing “historic” reforms of #HEaccess. They are indeed big, but those of us who work in the field will have deep and well founded concerns. 
Donelan sets scene for reform: skills shortages, levelling up, fairness, inclusion. The slogan gets its first outing: “it’s not just about getting in, but getting on”.
Donelan is comparing #LifelongLoanEntitlement to the founding of the NHS and saying it will revolutionise attitude to upskilling and reskilling. < Looking forward to the funding that will make this possible. Also to reskill people must be allowed to step down quals as well as up.
Donelan: There will be a consultation on #lifelongloanentitlement
Donelan: “Real social mobility is as much about getting on as getting in”. Drink.
Donelan: “We are refocusing the entire access regime on attainment and outcomes”
@johndavidblake formally announced as new DFAP
His first job is to ask all HEIs to resubmit Access & Participation Plans refocused on working with local schools on supporting attainment.
One great recent innovation of @Millward_Ch was to extend time frame of APPs to allow longer term planning. Thos plans will now need to be dumped.
Donelan says a lot of HEIs’ work with schools goes unrecognised. It may also be true that she does not recognise how hard these partnerships are to achieve for HEIs (and the role of 3rd sector orgs in facilitating them).
Ends with that slogan again. But early in the morning, but drink again.
@JG_THE questions @michelledonelan about using salary as an outcome. She replies that it’s about grad jobs, not high pay. < ok, but that’s proved very hard to define without focussing too hard on pay.
@JG_THE: What’s coming in the Augar response and will it be damaging for access?
@michelledonelan: We will be responding soon.
Geological definitions of “soon” are not ruled out.
@michelledonelan: We will be responding soon.
Geological definitions of “soon” are not ruled out.
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