Warming a Higher Education Cold Spot: The Case of Coventry University in Scarborough
Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?
ISBN: 978-1-78754-110-8, eISBN: 978-1-78743-836-1
Publication date: 23 August 2018
Abstract
This chapter outlines the development of ‘CU Scarborough’, a new campus of Coventry University Group, developed on the North Yorkshire coast in the UK. It is positioned as though it were a ‘micro university’ in and for an area of traditionally low participation in higher education – a so-called ‘higher education cold spot’. This chapter provides an overview of the project highlighting: the motivation for the development; summarising the innovative academic model being applied; tracking the rapid journey from initial concept to the first students preparing to graduate and reflecting on the impact being made to date.
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Acknowledgement
We are grateful to Gareth Smith for his data analysis work.
Citation
Gaskell, C. and Dunn, I. (2018), "Warming a Higher Education Cold Spot: The Case of Coventry University in Scarborough", Billingham, S. (Ed.) Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg? (Great Debates in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 177-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181014
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