National Aimhigher Projects

Between 2005-2007, HEFCE funded these six national Aimhigher projects. Some still continue in some form, please visit their own websites for the latest information.

AchieveAbility: Breaking the barriers to HE for students with specific learning difficulties
www.achieveability.org.uk
This project aims to raise awareness of the issues surrounding pupils with specific learning difficulties within schools and Aimhigher partnerships, and deliver specific activities for such pupils.

Aimhigher National Mentoring Scheme
www.hementornet.org
This project comprises three activity strands: the National Mentoring Scheme, which places university mentors in secondary schools; the Brightside Trust Health e-mentoring project; and HE MentorNet, which organises networking events, research and evaluation and provides resources through a new mentoring website.

ASDAN Project
www.asdan.co.uk
This project aims to raise achievement and potential progression and entry to HE by helping to develop more independent and autonomous learners in schools using the Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (COPE).

Chemistry: The Next Generation
www.rsc.org/education/CFOF
This project aims to develop materials and activities to raise the aspirations of potential students to take up courses in chemical sciences.

Compact Scheme Project
www.leeds.ac.uk/external-affairs/city/Compact.htm
This project will investigate the special admissions arrangements (including compacts and summer schools) which operate across the HE sector.

Higher Education Gateway for Gifted and Talented

www.nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/giftedandtalented
The project aims to raise expectations among under-represented groups from England's top five per cent of gifted young people.