@fionaellison.bsky.social
For instance, extending summer tenancies for care-experienced and estranged students in their final year can relieve the immediate pressure to find a job post-graduation. This gives them the time and space to secure the right job, reducing the risk of homelessness. (3/3)
April 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
For instance, extending summer tenancies for care-experienced and estranged students in their final year can relieve the immediate pressure to find a job post-graduation. This gives them the time and space to secure the right job, reducing the risk of homelessness. (3/3)
Starting this conversation is a great step, but action is crucial. While the plan includes significant initiatives, some smaller changes can also make a big impact. (2/3)
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 8:26 AM
Starting this conversation is a great step, but action is crucial. While the plan includes significant initiatives, some smaller changes can also make a big impact. (2/3)
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...
Reposted
We laid out the current issues (including 33% of working class students skipping meals to save on food costs) and options for reform here - www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
Reforming student maintenance - The Sutton Trust
The third policy briefing in our General Election series discusses the student financial support system.
www.suttontrust.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We laid out the current issues (including 33% of working class students skipping meals to save on food costs) and options for reform here - www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
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)
We'd love to see more HEI's robustly using data to understand the impact of their support - and then challenging themselves to do better and think differently about how financial support can be distributed.
But to do that we need good data on smaller student populations from HESA!
But to do that we need good data on smaller student populations from HESA!
January 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We'd love to see more HEI's robustly using data to understand the impact of their support - and then challenging themselves to do better and think differently about how financial support can be distributed.
But to do that we need good data on smaller student populations from HESA!
But to do that we need good data on smaller student populations from HESA!
We at Unite Foundation know that targeted financial support through accommodation bursaries is the only evidenced intervention that makes a difference in terms of progression & completion for care experienced and estranged students: thisisusatuni.org/jiscimpactan...
Impact = Unite Foundation
This is 10 years of impact Students on the Unite Foundation scholarship have always told us how life changing the scholarship has been for them. But until now, we’ve not had enough data to be able to ...
thisisusatuni.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We at Unite Foundation know that targeted financial support through accommodation bursaries is the only evidenced intervention that makes a difference in terms of progression & completion for care experienced and estranged students: thisisusatuni.org/jiscimpactan...