Today, we have published updated regulatory guidance and advice for universities and colleges to produce access and participation plans.
These plans set out the steps that universities and colleges will take to improve equality of opportunity to ensure that disadvantaged groups can access, succeed in and progress from higher education.
A lack of equal opportunities remains a real and enduring challenge for many students in English higher education. More than 100 higher education providers must submit a new plan in the next year for how they will tackle those challenges, in their own institution and across the sector. Our updated guidance will help providers shape those plans.
The updates have been made following feedback from wave 1 providers, a self-selected group of providers that submitted plans in summer 2023.
