All nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year A
Merry Christmas.png Happy Christmas and Season’s Greetings from everyone at CAVA
Thank you to everyone for your all your support and hard work again this year! It has been a pleasure working with you! Instead of sending Christmas cards in the post, we[...]
UCAS resources for mature undergraduate students
Please find a link to some useful UCAS resources for mature students: https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/student-life/mature-undergraduate-students
CAVA Student survey winner
Congratulations to Georgia, Access to HE Diploma (Health and Social Care) student from Cornwall College in Saltash, who won the £50 book token for completing the end of year student survey. We[...]
Cambridge University – HE21+programme
HE21+programme HE21+ is a collaborative outreach and mentoring programme between Lucy Cavendish College (in partnership with the other mature Cambridge Colleges) and the University of Cambridge itself. The project provides Further Education[...]
Career Coach
QAA has launched Career Coach, an online tool that helps match prospective students with the Access to HE programme that best supports their professional ambitions. Many Access to HE students choose their programmes based[...]
Hartpury University and Hartpury College
Hannah, an MSci Equine Science student at Hartpury University, talks about why the Access to Higher Education was so important for her. ‘Get prepared, get ready’ – Access to Higher Education https://youtu.be/xJpfcUC0Ibo [...]
The success of the Access to HE students is an example of widening participation in action
31/05/19 Yesterday’s Augar review praised the track record of Further Education Colleges’ Access to HE courses, which it argued, provide better value for money than University foundation year courses. This timely guest[...]
CAVA Regional network meetings
CAVA is running regional network meetings during April and May. Previous meetings have been popular, with excellent feedback from attendees and they should be highly enjoyable and informative days again this year.[...]
CAVA Access to HE Diploma – Award winners
CAVA Access to HE Diploma – Award winners The CAVA Student Awards celebrate student achievement and excellence in 2018, and the winners are nominated for the national KeithFletcher prize. The Keith Fletcher[...]