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Uni Connect (NCOP) - Linking London Update

April has been a short month for colleges and staff, with the two-week Spring break, but staff have still delivered lots of valuable one-to-one sessions, including signing up new Year 1 and Year 12 students, and the number of learners we have worked with continues to climb. The latest figure is 629 learners in total, of which 370 live in one of our target wards.

The London South East Colleges Linking London Transition Week has now taken place, due to the hard work and collaboration of staff from many HE partners, as well as staff across departments at all three LSEC campuses, and our Uni Connect team. We look forward to sharing insights and feedback from this innovative event. As mentioned, one-to-one sessions have been the focus at all our other colleges, covering student finance, careers, university offers, and signing up new learners to the programme who we will be able to continue to work with during Phase 3 of the Uni Connect. Through UAL, we have been able to supply creative students on a subject-specific e-mentoring programme with fantastic ‘art boxes’, which are an effective incentive to participating in the mentoring and make a tangible difference to learners developing their portfolios.

A data visualisation in the form of a Concept Map has been produced using the data from our two student-led Young Researcher focus groups in March; this is available to view in the Evaluation section of our website so please do take a look. Further focus groups are being conducted in May to collect insights on some of our e-mentoring projects and these insights will also be shared in due course.

Uni Connect Outreach Hub Update

Our BTEC support package went out on Monday 19th and you can find it here – this includes links to our partner produced videos and various resources. Please feel free to circulate this to colleagues and students. We are also holding a staff CPD event focusing on Nursing, Midwifery, and other health subjects on May 18th – for more info and to sign up please click here. Our bulletin went out last week and continues to highlight online outreach activities and helpful resources, you can subscribe here. As always, if you have any questions or requests for support, do get in touch with Jess and Melanie.