Common use of ADDITIONAL ACCESS AND RETENTION MEASURES Clause in Contracts

ADDITIONAL ACCESS AND RETENTION MEASURES. Academic support ranging from the personal tutor system to Students’ Union initiatives and in-session support from the English Language Centre is intended to ensure that every student who gains entry to King’s is capable of completing their programme. The College records reasons for withdrawal and is able to monitor variance between different programmes of study. In 2009, only 5 home students claimed finance as the main reason for withdrawal. However, our access agreement proposes an additional investment in hardship funding on the basis that we believe financial hardship might impact on other personal issues experienced by students who withdraw. Academic leadership comes from each of the College’s nine academic Schools developing unique widening participation and fair access statements which identify key initiatives based on the varied academic portfolio and student profiles of the different Schools. These distinctive offerings will also enable new partnerships to support the academic agenda. King’s College London is unusual in its peer group in its development of progression agreements. The College led a Lifelong Learning Network and has embedded several progression agreements with the intention of working with its network of local colleges and schools and continuing to build new pathways to admissions. Partnership takes the form of a variety of strategic partners who will work with King’s in support of the widening participation and fair access strategy. The existing King’s my Bursary and my Scholarship schemes will be phased out as the students graduate: in the meantime the commitments to current award holders will be fully honoured. Existing King’s students who started in 2006-7 or 2007-8 will be awarded a King’s myBursary to match 50% of their total maintenance grant (up to a maximum of £1,350). Existing students who started in 2008-9 or later will be awarded a King’s my Bursary, also based on their maintenance grant, as follows: £2,200 - £3,250 £1,350 £1,500 - £2,199 £1,050 £700 - £1,499 £350 £50 - £699 £100 All King’s students starting full-time undergraduate study after 2006-7 will be automatically eligible to be considered for a King’s myScholarship. 40 new scholarships are available each year, running at an existing steady state of 120 in total. These will be phased out from 2012 as students graduate. King’s myScholarship awards are each worth £1,800 and will be awarded by each of the College’s School Board of Examiners who will select those students who both: o excelled in their studies during the year and o contributed to the student life of their department, School or the College Table 4 Summary of financial support assumptions for new students from 2012-13 Household Income National Scholarship Programme King's STEM Enterprise Scholarship King's Living Bursary King's Student Fund2 Access to Professions Fee waiver £0 - £25,000 £6,0003 fee waiver for first year £9,000 fee waiver plus £1,000 cash bursary Yrs 1-3 £1,000 for each eligible year of study means- tested discretionary award £100 - £3,000 £9,000 fee waiver for first year £25,001 - £42,600 £500 for each eligible year of study means- tested discretionary award £100 - £3,000 £9,000 fee waiver for first year 2 The King’s Student Fund will act as a hardship fund.