Promoting equal opportunities

How we promote access, success and progress for underrepresented groups of students.

In this section

Our approach and ambitions

How and why we promote equal opportunities including targets and plans

Access and participation plans

What higher education providers should do to promote equal opportunities

Effective practice

Effective practice to support underrepresented students

Evaluation

How to effectively evaluate access and participation work

Data dashboard

Explore access and participation data by university or college

Uni Connect

Support for partnerships offering outreach in local areas (formerly the National Collaborative Outreach Programme)

Addressing Barriers to Student Success

Helping students facing disadvantage

Support for disabled students

How we and the sector can help disabled students

Access agreements

Regulating access agreements approved under the previous system

How students can help tackle inequality

How students can get involved in plans to address inequalities in higher education

Disabled Students' Commission

A new group to improve support for disabled students

Support for postgraduate research students

Working with UKRI to support equality, diversity and inclusion in postgraduate research studies

See our access and participation glossary

Last updated 27 July 2020 + show all updates

27 July 2020: Updated effective practice section and restructured evaluation section
06 May 2020: New page published on support for postgraduate research students

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