Office for Students

Advice on requests to vary access and participation plans to cover academic year 2023-24

The Director for Fair Access and Participation has written to all providers with an access and participation plan, asking them to request variations to their access and participation plans for the 2023-24 academic year. The variations should address our new priorities for access and participation.

The deadline for submitting your request is 31 July 2022.

Below is the letter, together with advice on how providers should prepare and submit requests to vary their access and participation plans.

Date:
12 April 2022
Variations to access and participation plans for 2023-24
PDF, 91Kb
Letter to accountable officers from John Blake, Director for Fair Access and Participation
Annex A: Advice on requests to vary access and participation plans to cover academic year 2023-24
PDF, 140Kb
Information on the new priorities and how we expect providers to respond to these in their requests to vary their access and participation plans.
Annex B: Summary of approved access and participation plan
PDF, 156Kb
Guidance on the new access and participation plan summary we are asking all providers to complete, including an illustrative example of a plan template. A fictional exemplar and a template for providers to complete are provided below.
Annex C: How to submit a request to vary your provider’s access and participation plan
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Information on how to submit a request to the OfS to vary an access and participation plan. Please ensure you read it before making your submission.
Plan summary template
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The template for providers to complete. This should be no longer than three pages. Please refer to Annex B for guidance when completing this template.
Exemplar plan summary
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A fictional example of a plan summary, which providers may find useful to refer to when completing their plan summary.

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Published 12 April 2022
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