Скачать или смотреть WAHEN talk - Support Low-Income, First-Generation & Marginalised Students to Achieve Their Potential

This seminar organised by the World Access to Higher Education Network (WAHEN) was held on 2 July 2025 to mark the launch of WAHEN's ‘Supporting Higher Education Access and Success: How universities do this?’ Global Community. To propel equity in access to higher education (HE) forward, how students at the pre-entry stage are prepared and supported to enter HE and progress is fundamental. It is being increasingly accepted around the world that universities have a huge role to play working with schools, children and older learners before they enter HE and right from younger ages, helping them achieve at school, understand the course and the institutional options available to them, and overcome the cultural barriers that HE presents to them. This WAHEN Global Community will bring together those in universities from every continent who are working collaboratively with schools, colleges and community groups on attainment raising, mentoring and outreach. The group will also look at how admissions practices can be used to support equity and how financial support/scholarships can be used most effectively.

0:00 Introductions
6:55 Professor Alicia Salomone, Director of International Relations at University of Chile
25:21 Professor June Pym, Emeritus Associate Professor and Education Consultant, and Mo Malele, Student Development Advisor, The Saville Foundation
46:10 Questions and answers with Alicia, June and Mo
58:26 Martin Webster, Interim Director of National Education Opportunities Network (NEON)
1:14:15 Dr. Fabrizio Mejia, Interim Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion, and Dr. Julian Ledesma, Senior Executive Director of Centers for Educational Equity and Excellence, University of California, Berkeley
1:39:41 Questions and answers with Martin, Fabrizio and Julian
1:52:39 Closing