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Upcoming CPD Opportunities
Tuesday 28th January: Creating Successful Outreach Projects for Males on Free School Meals, 3.00-4.30pm
Are you a teacher, adviser or practitioner working with or designing programmes for male learners on free school meals (MFSM)?
Would you like to improve your engagement and understanding of these learners?
Go Higher West Yorkshire in partnership with leading consultant and trainer, Andy Griffith would like to invite you to an online CPD session to help you understand and engage male learners on free school meals more effectively.
As part of this CPD session, you will hear from key speaker Andy Griffith, who has a wealth of educational and training experience, offering practical solutions to build cultural and social capital, and engage more MFSM and their parents.
The online session will include:
- Where and Why are the working class are under-represented and undervalued.
- Key factors to affect our learning design for males on free school meals (MFSM)
- Balancing information-giving to ‘sparking’ the interest and motivation of MFSM
- Taking an assets-based approach to our work.
- Making modular and one-off sessions more engaging.
Target Audience – Careers, education or community professionals working with and/or designing programmes for young people
Thursday 13th February: Supporting Care Experienced Learners on their Higher Education Journey, 3.00-4.30pm
Calling all practitioners working with Care Experienced learners who are considering HE as an option!
To coincide with Care Day, GHWY are focussing this free online CPD session on Care Experienced learners, a group at risk of equality of opportunity when progressing to Higher Education. Join GHWY, and Inspiring Choices to hear more examples of how we support Care Experienced learners to progress into Higher Education.
By the end of the session you will know more about how the HE sector support Care Experienced learners, and what opportunities, resources and activities are out there specially tailored to meet the needs of these learners.
The session includes:
- The common definition of Care Experience
- Collaborative Approach for working with Care Experienced learners/ Care Leavers
- Key resources you can use to support Care Experienced learners in their HE journey
- A launch and demo of the Care Experienced Learners Transition Pack
We are joined by guest speakers Penny Garner, Outreach and Partnerships Manager and Alex Hargreaves, Outreach Coordinator from Inspiring Choices, the North Yorkshire Uni Connect. They will outline and reflect on their collaborative approach to working with Care Experienced learners and Care Leavers in their region. As well as share their new outreach opportunity for 2025, the Destinations Festival.
This session is aimed at: teachers, advisors, Virtual Schools staff, designated teachers, outreach and Uni Connect staff, and any others advising, or supporting care experienced learners.
We look forwards to seeing you at the session!
Thursday 27th February: Changes to UCAS Personal Statements, 3.00-4.30pm
Are you a teacher, adviser or practitioner advising learners to apply for Higher Education?
Would you like to know more about the changes to the UCAS Personal Statements?
Go Higher West Yorkshire, in partnership with Advancing Access, would like to invite you to an online CPD session to provide an overview of personal statement reform, detailing the new process and giving advice and guidance on how you can best support your students through the process.
As part of this CPD session, you will hear from key speaker Jennifer Barton, Student Recruitment Manager at Durham University. Her role involves forging relationships with schools and colleges across the country and working with teachers and advisers to help provide them with information about higher education.
Target Audience – Careers, education or community professionals supporting post-16 learners to apply for higher education entry in the UK.
Tuesday 25th March: Student Finance Updates, 3.00-4.30pm
Are you a teacher, adviser or practitioner supporting learners on their HE journey?
Go Higher West Yorkshire, in partnership with the Student Loans Company, are holding an online CPD session to update you on student finance for 2025 HE entrants.
Sammie Hutchinson, Funding Information Services Account Manager at the Student Loans Company, will cover all you need to know if you are advising KS5 learners on applying for student finance.
The session will include:
- An overview of the student finance process including tuition fees, maintenance loans and targeted grants.
- Key updates to the student loan system for 2025 entrants
Target Audience – Careers, education or community professionals working with young people.
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Post 16 Qualifications Landscape
Boost your confidence in supporting young people with our free self-paced CPD webinar on the evolving post-16 qualifications landscape, including T Levels, BTECs, and key updates.
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E-learning for HE staff to understand and support disabled students
An online course that will provide you with knowledge, understanding and confidence to empower you to support disabled students in Higher Education (HE).
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Understanding the Clearing Process
This webinar delivered by The University of Bradford, provides an in-depth overview of the clearing process, key dates, preparation tips for students, and strategies for supporting students through the clearing process.
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UCAS Fair Access Programme- Understanding Underrepresented Groups and Progression Data
In this Webinar, we are joined by Ellie Rowley, Fair Access Programme Lead at UCAS. In this session, Ellie will highlight key progression data and trends amongst learners from underrepresented groups, highlighting research and lessons learnt to support best practice when working with young people from underrepresented groups. This will take both a national and regional focus.
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Exploring Career Opportunities in Professional Services for Young People
Delivered in collaboration with West Yorkshire Combined Authority, this Webinar provides an overview of the Professional Services sector.Joined by Lloyds, KPMG and Gordons LLP, these employers highlight key progression options and routes at post 16 and 18, as well as career paths and what employers are looking for in the sector. -
Student Finance Updates for 2024-25
In this Webinar, The Student Loans Company provide key updates and an overview of Disabled Students Allowance.
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Understanding Careers in Digital & IT
Delivered in collaboration with West Yorkshire Combined Authority, this Webinar will provide an overview of the Digital and IT sector; highlighting key progression options and routes at post 16 and 18, as well as career paths and what employers are looking for in the sector.
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GHWY Attainment Raising Programme: Successful delivery in the classroom (30 Jan 2024)
This webinar is for teachers and practitioners who would like to know more about the Go Higher Attainment Raising programme and how they can deliver it in their own school. We provide an overview of the 6 session programme, key activities and lessons learnt to help inform your delivery of these resources.
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Introduction to GHWY/WYCA Resources (Monday 22nd January 2024)
In this webinar we welcome teachers and practitioners who want to learn more about the range of resources on offer through WYCA Future Goals platform and Go Higher West Yorkshire.
These two organisations offer a wide range of free activities and resources for secondary schools and colleges, and this session is an opportunity to explore some of these in depth.
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Harnessing lived experiences and stories to empower marginalised voices (Thursday 11th January 2024)
In this Webinar, Syra Shakir, an Associate Professor in Learning and Teaching at Leeds Trinity University reflects on a student & staff co-creation project which used storytelling as a decolonized pedagogy to educate high school GCSE age young people on the 1947 Partition of India.
Join us in redefining education for a brighter, more inclusive future!
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Alternative Routes into Healthcare - 16 Nov 2023
This CPD session brings together three of Go Higher West Yorkshire’s member institutions. The University of Bradford, University of Leeds and University of Huddersfield present on a range of their healthcare courses, offering an insight into suggested routes for learners who may not be progressing onto medicine or dentistry. This session is useful for any teachers or practitioners who want to develop their knowledge on different healthcare courses and support young people into a variety of routes in this sector.
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GHWY Attainment Raising Dissemination
The Uni Connect programme based in West Yorkshire piloted an attainment raising programme in five schools across the academic year 2022-23. In this session the team share their overview of the programme as well as the key outcomes.
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Updates on the UCAS Referencing Process. 14th Oct 2023
UCAS has recently changed the reference writing process. Instead of submitting a single piece of prose, referees must now provide responses in three different sections. In this CPD session, delivered by Advancing Access, you will learn how to write references in the new format and will gain insights into what more selective universities in particular are looking for from the new reference.
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Personal Statements with Advancing Access (Oct 2023)
This session will enable teachers and advisers to effectively support students with the UCAS personal statement writing process.
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Medicine and Dentistry Routes & Alternative Routes - Oct 2023
In this session, we’ll be joined by Mark Patterson, Educational Engagement Lead Officer at the University of Leeds, who will give an update on changes to the admissions landscape across the sector, as well as sharing some useful hints and tips for supporting your aspiring Medics and Dentists to successfully apply to HE this year.
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Preparing learners to access careers support in Higher Education
This online CPD session is designed for career and guidance professionals, offering crucial information about Careers support for learners transitioning to Higher Education. It provides an overview of available resources from first-year to post-graduation, including special assistance for underrepresented groups.
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Understanding the HE Clearing Process
The University of Bradford hosts this webinar session to educate attendees about the Clearing process, offering guidance on preparing students and their families, addressing potential outcomes, and discussing options like deferring offers.
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Understanding and Supporting Care Experienced/Estranged Students
By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge, understanding and confidence that will empower you to support care experienced young people and estranged students in Higher Education (HE). The course may also be of interest to staff that work in counselling, careers or marketing in HE so they can better communicate with and/or provide support for these students.
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Supporting Disabled Learners (25th May 2023)
This session is aimed at practitioners who support and work with learners with a disability or additional needs.
Please join us for an inspirational session focusing on increasing the confidence of students who may have additional needs when progressing into further/higher education and employment.
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How to use and communicate Labour Market Information within schools: a focus on LMI and LMI education, within West Yorkshire
With a focus on LMI and LMI education within West Yorkshire, this session is aimed at teachers and careers advisors who are involved in designing and delivering careers education, advice and guidance to young people aged 11-18.
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Spotlight on Creative Arts and Industries’ session 4: Employers Perspective- Hear Straight from the Creative Sector
In our Employer focused session, we are joined by two professionals within the creative industry to explore different careers within the sector.
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‘Spotlight on Creative Arts and Industries’ Session 3: Overview of Higher Education Opportunities
Designed for teachers and advisors, this session will provide an overview of Higher Education courses and opportunities within the creative arts. We will be joined by two local universities within West Yorkshire, the University of Bradford and University Centre Leeds; to hear from a range of creative arts courses and discuss the opportunities and benefits available to learners at this level.
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'Spotlight on Creative Arts and Industries' session 2: Overview of Level 3 Opportunities
Designed for teachers and advisors, this session will provide an overview of Level 3 courses designed to help young people to enter the creative arts. We will have speakers from a range of institutions focusing on creative apprenticeships, T levels, and BTECs- as well as highlighting work opportunities and experiences open to learners whilst on these courses.
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'Spotlight on Creative Arts and Industries' session 1: Introduction and Overview of the Creative Industries
This session is the first of four sessions designed to provide teachers and advisors with up-to-date information and the knowledge to advise on post 16 pathways and opportunities within the creative arts.
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Understanding the lived experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students
A CPD session aimed at teachers, careers advisors and higher education staff. Funded through Go Higher West Yorkshire Uni Connect Programme and delivered by Shames Maskeen, Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Leeds Trinity University.
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GHWY Uni Connect CPD: Student Finance Updates for 2023
Organised by Go Higher West Yorkshire, this session will cover all of the key updates teachers and advisors need to know in order to best advise their young people on student finance for 2023, including covering disabled learners allowance.
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GHWY Uni Connect CPD: Preparing students for additional admissions tests and interviews
This training session will help develop your knowledge and ability to prepare students for upcoming HE interviews and additional tests.
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GHWY Uni Connect CPD: Exploring Apprenticeships (02/02/23)
This training session will help develop your knowledge and ability to advise on the current apprenticeship process and opportunities.
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GHWY Uni Connect CPD: Supporting Students to Make Choices at 18 (16.01.23)
This session will focus on helping teachers and advisers to support students to make higher education choices. Participants will be encouraged to consider the best support for students deciding on a suitable degree subject, by thinking about career ambitions or pursuing areas of academic interest.
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GHWY Uni Connect CPD: Disabled Learners Transition Pack Launch (17.11.22)
Find out more about the GHWY Disabled Learner Transition Pack to support learners with additional requirements and support.
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GHWY Uni Connect CPD: Basic Social Media Training - Jul 2022
Learn about different types of social media platforms and understand the latest trends.
