event eligibility

Event Eligibility Criteria

In the event of our events and activities being oversubscribed, places will be allocated according to the following criteria:

Bookings by School/College Groups

For group bookings by school, the following criteria will be applied if the event is oversubscribed:

Student’s School/College:
  • If a student currently attends a school or college where the number of students achieving either:
    • five or more GCSE’s A* to C, including Mathematics and English, is 35% or less
    • the average QCA points score per student is 550 or less**
  • If a student currently attends a ‘green’ banded school***

Bookings by Individuals

For events where individual students can book a place, the following crieteria will apply if the event is oversubscribed:

Student’s Postcode:
  • If a student lives in a neighbourhood which has a low progression rate to Higher Education*
  • If a student lives in a neighbourhood which has a high level of financial, economic or social deprivation
Student’s School/College:
  • If a student currently attends a school or college where the number of students achieving either:
    • five or more GCSE’s A* to C, including Mathematics and English, is 35% or less
    • the average QCA points score per student is 550 or less**
  • If a student currently attends a ‘green’ banded school***
Other circumstances:
  • If a student has experienced local authority care within the last ten years, for a period of longer than three months
  • If a student is in receipt of, or entitled to, Free Schools Meals and/or discretionary school/college payments, which are directly related to financial hardship
  • If a student is from an ethnic minority group
  • If a student has a registered disability
For residential events only:

Extenuating circumstances relating to social, economic or educational disadvantage affecting the individual student at key educational times will be taken into consideration alongside the criteria above.  Full, verifiable details must be provided.

 

*In 2013 HEFCE released an updated dataset, POLAR 3, to indicate the participation rates of young people in Higher Hducation (HE) by postcode. These are classified into five ‘quintiles’, with 1 being the lowest rate of participation. HEFCE officially recognises Quintiles 1 and 2 as ‘WP’ areas

**School performance data for GCSE and post-16 are those quoted by the DFE for 2012

***Target Schools have been ‘banded’ according to the level of deprivation based on IMD and FSM data of the school, using a traffic light system. Green schools display the most WP characteristics with an IMD score greater than 80% and/or FSM greater than 25%