Projects

• Recent Projects
• Previous Projects

Recent Projects (2007/08)
The North Forum works in three main areas: communities, schools and transitions. Completed recent projects in each of these three areas are shown below: find out more by clicking on the project titles.

Communities
Engaging men in learning through local learning centres
Read about the second year of the Forum’s project to engage men in learning through local learning centres, working in some of the most remote communities across the North of Scotland.

Capacity building
This project aimed to help all Forum partners in the north of Scotland in providing advice to adults seeking to access post-compulsory education.  The website created through this project is now available at http://www.staff-support.co.uk/

Course you can
The Forum’s new ‘Course You Can’ website is now available at www.courseyoucan.org.uk. It gives information on entry points and routes into and through further and higher education in the north of Scotland, and it is designed for both potential learners and careers and guidance advisers.

Diverse routes into higher education in Scotland
This national project provides information and guidance on routes into higher education for groups such as new migrants, EU nationals, refugees and asylum seekers - see www.diverseroutes.co.uk.

Schools

ASPIRENorth
ASPIRENorth works with P7–S4 pupils in schools that have historically low higher education progression rates. The team runs a comprehensive programme of activities in 24 target secondary schools across the north of Scotland – see www.scotland-aspirenorth.ac.uk for more information.

ASPIRENorth web development project
ASPIRENorth recently added exciting new interactive materials for pupils to its website

“What’s Next?”  
This DVD resource contains case studies of a range of students from across the north of Scotland to provide potential learners with ideas and inspiration about possible routes into higher and further education.

Transitions

SWAPNorth
SWAP access to higher education courses in the North of Scotland are co-ordinated through the North Forum.

The North Forum element of the national bridging project - development of tools to improve bridging arrangements in computing and engineering
This project has produced materials to support students in the transition between college and higher education institutions in the subject areas of computing and engineering.

Previous Projects

Communities

• Scoping study of learning centres in the North East of Scotland (summer 2007)
• Engaging men in learning through local learning centres (phase one completed March 2007; phase two ongoing – see current projects)
• Access route planner (completed March 2006)
• Mapping ethnicity in the Highlands and Islands (completed August 2005)
• Dreamcatcher 2 (completed August 2005)
• The Northfield adult education survey (completed 2001)
• Widening participation in rural and small community contexts (completed 2001)

Schools

• Promoting post-compulsory education to school pupils via video/DVD (completed July 2007)
• The University for Children and Communities (completed its work on 31.12.05, see ASPIRENorth for current work)
• Schools liaison activity in Scotland (completed 2004)
• Grampian student tutoring scheme (completed 2002)

Transitions

• Guide to summer school provision in the North of Scotland (summer 2007)
• Transition to and within colleges
  • Easing the transition between school and college
  • Creating independent learners
• The North Forum element of the national bridging project (first phase completed January 2007)
• FE to HE transition project (completed December 2004)
• Toolbox for HE Phase I and Phase II (completed 2003)

Forum management

• Data collection project (data complete)

Caitriona Maciver, North Forum Manager
Castle House, Fairways Business Park, Castle Heather, Inverness, IV2 6AA
Tel: 01463 701010 email: c.maciver@abdn.ac.uk

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