19-21 Labour Market Sessions for School Year 9 - Aspire to HE (Award)

Tender description

Aspire to HE' is a partner-based consortium which will deliver sustained, progressive, intensive outreach activity to targeted cohorts of learners (years 9 to 13) in identified wards to increase the numbers of students from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education. The measure of success is the progression of young people onto courses of prescribed higher education. The key aim is to increase the rate of young participation in HE in the target wards: 'young participation' is defined as the proportion of the cohort that enters HE at both 18 and 19 years of age. Details of Provision This opportunity will be offered to the Year 9 year groups, across 39 of our partner schools who are based around the Black Country and Telford and Wrekin, within the academic year 2019/2020 (September 2019 - July 2020).The contractor will deliver an intervention that explores employability and labour market information that is made relevant, engaging and accessible, to the target group of Year 9 students.