Unite Foundation
@unitefoundation.bsky.social
On a mission to ensure all estranged and care experienced students have a free #HomeAtUniversity. Starting with our scholarship scheme. https://thisisusatuni.org/unite-foundation/#about-the-charity
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#HomeAtUniversity A rent-free #HomeAtUniversity is the ONLY evidence-based intervention that results in estranged and care experienced students going to university, staying at university and completin...
thisisusatuni.org
We support estranged and care experienced students with a rent-free #HomeAtUniversity through a nationwide accommodation scholarship that is proven to support estranged and care experienced young people to stay on course and get a good honours degree. Find out more: thisisusatuni.org/home-at-univ...
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Now on at #TASOCon25: How can we better understand and support the journeys of care-experienced students in #highereducation? Speakers from the Rees Centre, Become, NNECL, Unite Foundation and TASO discuss findings from a recent TASO-Rees Centre report based on newly linked datasets.
April 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Now on at #TASOCon25: How can we better understand and support the journeys of care-experienced students in #highereducation? Speakers from the Rees Centre, Become, NNECL, Unite Foundation and TASO discuss findings from a recent TASO-Rees Centre report based on newly linked datasets.
Our Director @fionaellison.bsky.social worked with @universities-uk.bsky.social to explore their Access to Success: action plan for opportunity and what it means for enabling care experienced and estranged students to get in & stay at university.
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...
Enabling care-experienced and estranged students to access and thrive at university
Fiona Ellison, Director of the Unite Foundation shares the importance of providing opportunity for care leavers.
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Our Director @fionaellison.bsky.social worked with @universities-uk.bsky.social to explore their Access to Success: action plan for opportunity and what it means for enabling care experienced and estranged students to get in & stay at university.
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...
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That why students on the @unitefoundation.bsky.social scholarship say that without having to worry about paying their rent they're freed up to access everything else university has to offer. How do we ensure more care experienced & estranged students have a free #HomeAtUniversity (2/2)
April 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
That why students on the @unitefoundation.bsky.social scholarship say that without having to worry about paying their rent they're freed up to access everything else university has to offer. How do we ensure more care experienced & estranged students have a free #HomeAtUniversity (2/2)
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Missed our event where we launched 'Pathways into and through higher education for young people with experience of children's social care', a report by @reescentre.bsky.social and TASO?
Head to our YouTube channel to catch up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUy...
@unitefoundation.bsky.social
Head to our YouTube channel to catch up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUy...
@unitefoundation.bsky.social
Pathways into and through higher ed for young people with experience of children’s social care
YouTube video by TASO
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Missed our event where we launched 'Pathways into and through higher education for young people with experience of children's social care', a report by @reescentre.bsky.social and TASO?
Head to our YouTube channel to catch up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUy...
@unitefoundation.bsky.social
Head to our YouTube channel to catch up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUy...
@unitefoundation.bsky.social
Great to see @hepi-news.bsky.social continue to bring to the fore the experiences of those from care in higher education: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/03/11/h... which continues to draw out the high number withdrawing or considering withdrawing from their studies. More reasons for a #HomeAtUniversity
How do care-experienced students view their time in higher education? - HEPI
Care-experienced students face higher dropout rates, financial strain, and travel burdens, highlighting the need for better institutional and governmental support.
www.hepi.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Great to see @hepi-news.bsky.social continue to bring to the fore the experiences of those from care in higher education: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/03/11/h... which continues to draw out the high number withdrawing or considering withdrawing from their studies. More reasons for a #HomeAtUniversity
It's great to see more focus being given to care experienced young people and their educational journey into and through higher education.
Today's report from @taso.org.uk & the @reescentre.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk cements what we already know...
Today's report from @taso.org.uk & the @reescentre.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk cements what we already know...
NEW on Wonkhe: Omar Khan sets out how those with experience of children’s social care still face challenges in accessing and completing higher education buff.ly/Gg2Q69G
March 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It's great to see more focus being given to care experienced young people and their educational journey into and through higher education.
Today's report from @taso.org.uk & the @reescentre.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk cements what we already know...
Today's report from @taso.org.uk & the @reescentre.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk cements what we already know...
We warmly welcome the report that #NNECL are publishing today, on #CareDay, that helps to articulate the value of #HigherEducation and #FurtherEducation institutions perceive in undertaking the NNECL Quality Mark - www.nnecl.org/resources/ev...
Evaluation of the NNECL Quality Mark 2025
This report assess the impact of the first cohort of university and college recipients of the NNECL Quality Mark
www.nnecl.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We warmly welcome the report that #NNECL are publishing today, on #CareDay, that helps to articulate the value of #HigherEducation and #FurtherEducation institutions perceive in undertaking the NNECL Quality Mark - www.nnecl.org/resources/ev...
We support estranged and care experienced students with a rent-free #HomeAtUniversity through a nationwide accommodation scholarship that is proven to support estranged and care experienced young people to stay on course and get a good honours degree. Find out more: thisisusatuni.org/home-at-univ...
Home at University = Unite Foundation
#HomeAtUniversity A rent-free #HomeAtUniversity is the ONLY evidence-based intervention that results in estranged and care experienced students going to university, staying at university and completin...
thisisusatuni.org
February 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We support estranged and care experienced students with a rent-free #HomeAtUniversity through a nationwide accommodation scholarship that is proven to support estranged and care experienced young people to stay on course and get a good honours degree. Find out more: thisisusatuni.org/home-at-univ...