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Care experienced and estranged students

The Care Experienced and Estranged Students (CEES) Forum is a discussion and planning space for staff at AccessHE members who support learners from care backgrounds and learners estranged from their families. This includes young people from unaccompanied asylum seeker backgrounds. 

The forum’s objectives are: 

  • To jointly deliver activities with staff supporting this group including virtual schools, local authorities, social workers and HE practitioners; 
  • To develop learning materials or signpost existing resources; 
  • To maximise opportunities for collaboration, partnerships, networking and information sharing. 

London Higher Networks

  • Centres

    To offer a space for providers of higher education whose ‘home’ institution is based outside London. 

  • Civic

    To identify, coordinate and strategise on civic engagement across the London HE sector. 

  • Enterprise

    To provide a space for discussion and communication to improve enterprise capability and collaboration across London.

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) 

    To provide a space for open and honest discourse surrounding the opportunities and challenges involved in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) work across London HE.

  • International

    To convene colleagues from the London Higher membership to collaborate and campaign on issues where the internationalisation of higher education and London intersect.

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing 

    To bring colleagues together across London to discuss pan-London challenges and develop pan-London solutions and projects in the space of mental health and wellbeing.

  • Operations

    To provide opportunities for colleagues from London Higher member institutions working within operational functions to share best practice and institutional responses to issues affecting London HEIs.

  • Policy

    To provide a space for discussion, collaboration and communication for those working to influence and react to policy across HE in London.

  • Research Excellence

    To explore and evaluate the depth and breadth of London’s research excellence in multiple fields and build an appreciation among HE stakeholders of the strength of London as a centre of research excellence compared to other UK regions.

  • Strategic Planning and Data

    To provide a space for discussion, collaboration and communication for those working within planning and policy across HE in London.

  • Sustainability

    To share best practice across the sector with regards to environmental sustainability, showcasing the work of London Higher members, and working towards shared targets for environmental practices.

  • Teaching and Learning

    To provide an opportunity for colleagues in London to network and discuss teaching, learning and the student experience.

London Health Education Group Networks

  • London Medicine

    Network aim: London Medicine brings together the heads of all the capital’s undergraduate and postgraduate medical schools to work collegiately…

  • London Healthcare Education Group (LHEG)

    Network aim: LHEG brings together strategic leads from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) providing nursing, midwifery and applied health professions (AHP)…

AccessHE Networks

  • Student ambassadors

    The Student Ambassador Forum provides a discussion and planning space for staff at AccessHE members who run Student Ambassador programmes.  The forum’s objectives are:  To exchange…