Common use of Collaborative working Clause in Contracts

Collaborative working. Collaboration with other HEIs and agencies will be key to the successful delivery of improved support for widening participation and access to schools, colleges and local communities. SOAS is an active member in a number of networks relating to widening participation and access. Involvement in these networks have enabled us to increase the scope and reach of our work in attracting disadvantaged students as well as contributing to raising aspirations of students irrespective of which institution they may go to. We will commit resources to key networks such as National Routes into Languages programme and the Linking London Lifelong Learning Network. In addition, we will be supporting new collaborative arrangements such as Access HE (formerly Aimhigher WECAN) and the Bloomsbury Specialist HEI Group. The Bloomsbury Specialist HEI Group consists of specialist institutions who aim to raise aspirations and widen subject choices for disadvantaged groups. SOAS is actively exploring opportunities for collaborative work across the Bloomsbury consortium based upon the strengths of the respective institutions to form a cost-efficient approach to outreach. We will review all collaborative arrangements during this year to ensure they meet our widening access and outreach objectives under the new fees regime.