Context

The University is required by the Office for Students (OfS) to produce and report on an Access and Participation Plan (APP).

Primary responsibilities & Functions

AOG will report on our progress towards our targets, delivery and our evaluation activities to the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) and the University Executive Board This group’s remit is to:

• Oversee that actions are taken towards achieving the aims of the APP.
• Monitor progress against the APP commitments and oversee APP targets and commitments. AOG will provide update and/or recommendations to Education Advisory Board. To fulfil this action AOG will:
  • request and receive data analysis from key stakeholders
  • manage a risk register and undertake regular updating of this.
• Review ongoing activity to ensure it is delivering against APP aims/objectives/targets.
• Receive reports of impact (positive or not) of activities and updates from the WP Research Standing Group.
• Maintain oversight of APP spend against commitments.
• Provide input into and review any OfS requested monitoring returns and variations or rewrites of the APP. AOG will then recommend to Education Advisory Board to review and approve.

Membership

See the details of the membership of AOG.

Governance

• The Group will report regularly to Education Advisory Board who will subsequently send items to UEB/Senate/Council.
• Annual report to Student Experience Advisory Board, EDIC and S/FLTQCs.

Frequency of meetings

4-5 times a year. Dates for AOG meetings.

AOG Workstreams

AOG will have four workstreams and their terms of reference are as follows.

Workstreams Primary responsibilities & Functions

Workstreams will meet several times a year and deep dive into activities being delivered against the intervention strategies in the APP. Each workstream’s remit is to: - Monitor progress of the implementation of the Intervention Strategies (IS) - Monitor progress towards outcomes (using outcome indicators) in the IS - Understand impact of each intervention - Identify if other work is occurring to address the IS outcomes that is not listed in the IS intervention. - Ensure this work is delivering impact towards the IS outcomes

Workstream Governance

• Each workstream will report details of progress towards IS implementation and outcomes at one AOG meeting per year (the meeting focused on that lifecycle point)
• Teams and individuals reporting to the workstreams will use a Theory of Change to share their progress and impact for a particular project. No additional papers will be required.
• Each workstream will manage its own meeting schedule and will take its own notes. Formal minutes will not be taken but notes sufficient for the workstream Chair to report to AOG will be taken.

Workstream Frequency of meetings

Each workstream will meet 2-3 times per year.

Workstream Membership

• Membership of each workstream will be decided by the associated Chair.
• Each workstream will have 3-5 standing members with others invited for certain meetings or items.
• The workstream Chair should be a member of AOG.

Current Workstreams