Widening participation strategic assessments
Widening participation strategic assessments (WPSAs) are documents that the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) asks all higher education institutions and further education colleges to produce. WPSAs outline your overarching commitment to widening participation and how widening participation is embedded within your culture and practices. They have a three-year lifecycle.
For more information, see the joint guidance published by HEFCE and OFFA in January 2009 and HEFCE’s electronic publications 03/2009 and 10/2009. The HEFCE website also gives further information on WPSAs.
Annual monitoring returns
OFFA and HEFCE produce joint annual guidance on how to submit returns against both your access agreement and your WPSA. We then produce a joint monitoring outcomes report giving the results of our monitoring. See our Publications page for our most recent guidance and outcomes reports.
Got a query about WPSAs?
Please contact:
HEFCE
Richard Smith
0117 931 7151
r.smith@hefce.ac.uk
OFFA
Chris Scrase
0117 931 7053
chris.scrase@offa.org.uk