About Reaching Wider

The Reaching Wider Programme was established in 2002 as a Wales-wide, regionally focused, collaborative, long-term programme to widen access to higher education and higher-level skills.
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This national programme, funded by Medr, Commission for Tertiary Education and Research, aims to increase higher education participation from under-represented groups by raising educational aspirations and skills, and creating innovative study opportunities and learning pathways to higher education.

Our Objectives

1

Know

Develop students’ knowledge and awareness of the benefits of (higher) education and graduate employment, and in doing so foster ambition.

2

Choose

Develop students’ capacity to make informed choices and meaningful decisions in order to navigate key transition points throughout compulsory education, into post-compulsory education and through to employment.

3

Become

Develop students’ confidence and resilience to negotiate the challenges of school, college, university life and graduate progression.

4

Practice

Develop students’ study skills and capacity for academic attainment and successful graduate progression.

5

Understand

Develop students’ understanding by contextualising subject knowledge.

North and Mid Wales

Working together with our partners to improve social mobility

North and Mid Wales

The North and Mid Wales Reaching Wider Partnership is a collaborative programme led by Bangor University in partnership with Glyndwr University and Aberystwyth University

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South East Wales

Working together with our partners to improve social mobility

South East Wales

The South-East Wales Reaching Wider Partnership is a collaborative programme led by delivery teams at the University of South Wales, Cardiff Metropolitan University and Cardiff University.

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South West Wales

Working together with our partners to improve social mobility

South West Wales

The South-West Wales Reaching Wider Partnership is a collaborative programme led by delivery teams at Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

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