All schools and colleges will be supported by a Hub Manager who will facilitate a structured needs analysis and planning process. Through this process, you will be supported to access relevant GM Higher activities for your learners, as well as signposting to events and activities at our partner institutions.

You can also use our Regional Progression Framework as a tool to help map activity across the learning outcomes for your learners.

If you require additional support with planning your engagement or have questions about any of our activities please contact gmhigher@mmu.ac.uk

Our targeted outreach programme of in-school/college presentations and workshops is for year 10-13 learners only.

We also offer a programme of activities and events that are available for year 9-13 learners from targeted learner groups (e.g. care experienced learners, disabled learners, young carers, learners on Free School Meals).

For more information and to find out what events are available for your learners, please email gmhigher@mmu.ac.uk.

Please review our Event Booking Checklist and our Cancellation Policy.

All of our activities are fully-funded—there is no charge to schools, colleges or learners.

We need schools and colleges to support the monitoring and evaluation of our work so that we can evidence impact and comply with our funding requirements. The standard requirement is to provide learner registers prior to all activities and complete activity evaluation.

A requirement of our Office for Students funding is to track learner destinations so that long-term impact can be measured.

We ask learners to opt in to the collection and processing of their personal data for tracking and evaluation purposes via our Destination Tracking Forms. We require Destination Tracking Forms to be completed for all learners who take part in our activities.

Further information about our data collection and GDPR compliance can be found in the GMH Data Collection & GDPR Compliance document.

GM Higher aims to support the government’s social mobility goals by increasing the number of young people from under-represented groups who go into higher education.

The Uni Connect programme focuses on target wards, which are identified by areas where higher education participation is lower than what might be expected given the GCSE results of the young people who live there.

Pre-16

For any school-organised activity 66% of learners need to be from a target postcode.

For the remaining 33%, learners from the following groups should be targeted:

• Looked after children/care leavers
• Learners with disabilities (including long-term health conditions and additional needs)
• Young carers
• Free school meals
• First generation HE
• Asylum seeker/refugee status
• Military family/service children

For activities where individual learners sign up, those who meet postcode criteria will be prioritised, followed by those who meet additional WP criteria.

For 1-2-1s we expect 100% of the learners to be from a target postcode due to the intensity of the intervention.

Post-16

For any college-organised activity 50% of learners need to be from either a Uni Connect target or POLAR 4 Q1/Q2 postcode.

For the remaining 50%, learners from the following groups should be targeted:

• Looked after children/care leavers
• Learners with disabilities (including long-term health conditions and additional needs)
• Young carers
• Estranged students
• First generation HE
• Asylum seeker/refugee status
• Military family/service children

For activities where individual learners sign up, those who meet postcode criteria will be prioritised, followed by those who meet additional WP criteria.

For 1-2-1s we expect 100% of the learners to be from a target postcode or a POLAR 4 Q1 or Q2 postcode due to the intensity of the intervention.

We can provide CPD sessions for teachers and advisors to provide impartial information around key higher education themes.

We can deliver sessions ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours either as a twilight session or as part of an INSET day.

This activity is available on request and can be tailored to your school/college requirements. Please email gmhigher@mmu.ac.uk for more information.