Common use of Risks and Dependencies Clause in Contracts

Risks and Dependencies. Our University has an excellent record of widening participation among school/college age and mature students, while retaining high quality provision and excellent retention/completion rates. Key risks are posed by the potential introduction of top-up fees, which may reduce applications not just from students from LPNs but also from those from middle class backgrounds who fall into the “benefit trap”; and from a rapidly reducing school-age population in the North East; the region from which we recruit over 60% of our cohort. We are managing these risks through: more detailed evaluation of our applicant base, through improving application/offer/acceptance ratios, and through closer partnerships with local and national suppliers; improved financial information for students; a mandatory bursary scheme; a scholarship scheme which will offer additional income to all groups of applicants.