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What is SPA?

Making IAG work – whose job is it anyway? Flexible Access Routes and Admissions to HE Conference 9 November 2011 Dan Shaffer, Senior Project Officer. What is SPA?. Set up in 2006 following the Schwartz Report Fair Admissions to Higher Education: Recommendations for Good Practice 2004

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What is SPA?

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  1. Making IAG work – whose job is it anyway?Flexible Access Routes and Admissions to HE Conference9 November 2011 Dan Shaffer, Senior Project Officer

  2. What is SPA? • Set up in 2006 following the Schwartz Report Fair Admissions to Higher Education: Recommendations for Good Practice 2004 “ The Group recommends the creation of a central source of expertise and advice on admissions issues. Its purpose would be to act as a resource for institutions who wish to maintain and enhance excellence in admissions. Such a centre could lead the continuing development of fair admissions, evaluating and commissioning research, and spreading best practice.” • UK’s independent and objective voice on HE admissions • Small team, but with practical and relevant experience

  3. What is SPA?

  4. Making IAG work – whose job is it anyway? Admissions in the press • “Competitive colleges are processing record numbers of applications, further complicating the task of predicting who will enrol” • “So many admitted students chose to attend <blank> that the university had to lease a hotel and transform it into a residence hall” • “reflects the lingering economic downturn and an increasingly cautious approach by admissions offices” • “uncertainty at a volatile time in higher education” • 17 May 2010

  5. The applicant experience strategy Adopted a behavioural view of ‘experience’ Interactive participation and engagement, not a passive journey Accepted that marketing and market forces play a determining role Reviewed under four broad stages Effective IAG must link and underpin interactive engagement through all pre-entry stages and beyond pre-application application post-application transition

  6. A good versus a poor applicant experience A good applicant experience is mutually beneficial to both the applicant and the higher education provider prepares, informs and provides equality of opportunity to enter higher education should accurately match the student’s aims, abilities and aspirations with the character of the institution. therefore improves student retention and enhances the strategic mission of the institution A poor applicant experience is inherently detrimental to both the applicant and the higher education provider – both lose out perpetuates barriers to entry disengages potential applicants and their advisors risks incongruence between student expectations and institutional character therefore embeds an enrolment strategy leading to unfulfilled potential and increased drop-out

  7. What is effective IAG? INFORMATION ADVICE GUIDANCE INFORM ADVISE GUIDE

  8. Whose job is it?

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  10. Whose job is it?

  11. Whose job is it? Partners should consider how their admissions can be organised to best fit their mutual strategic aims and utilise management, staff training and communication to support those aims Partners should collaborate to ensure information for applicants is not only accessible but is actually accessed

  12. Whose job is it? I’m thinking of going to HE. How do I find out • Flexible modes of study? • Flexible start dates? • Flexible entry criteria? • Flexible fees/payment? • Which course is best for me? • Where to study?

  13. Whose job is it? You are a key supplier of IAG, but you are also a demander of IAG How do you get it? How do you interpret it? How do you share it?

  14. Whose job is it? “The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.” Oscar Wilde

  15. Thank youYour feedback is welcomedMore information from: enquiries@spa.ac.uk or 01242 544891www.spa.ac.uk

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