You can find information about the new Access to HE Diploma, how this is developing as a unique qualification and how this will involve AVAs. View AVA contact details>>

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AVA data submission

Guidance notes on the annual submission of statistics and links to the AVA administration area.
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Access to HE Diploma: implementation of grading - feedback report

Following the introduction of a common grading scheme on Access to HE courses in 2009-10, QAA gathered feedback from the main stakeholder groups about the implementation of the scheme and its impact on stakeholders. A report detailing and evaluating the responses received has now been published.
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Access to HE courses: retention, selection and demand - summary of findings from special appendices 2009

AVAs provided reports in December 2009 on work they had undertaken at QAA's request to investigate reasons for varying withdrawal rates and to explore the impact of the use of retention benchmarks on Access to HE.

QAA has now published a summary of the findings, which outlines the outcomes of this work and goes on to review the range and impact of retention and selection strategies adopted by colleges. It also includes a consideration of any change in demand for Access to HE courses in 2009-10 and how providers responded to that demand. Read the report