Creating World Class Partnerships Between Schools & Higher Education
The School-HE Links in London (SHELL) project has ended.
SHELL ambitions will continue under AccessHE.
Click here for the background to the SHELL project.
Tools for schools
Click here to find out how schools can contact universities in London.
Download a copy of the SHELL Toolkit. It includes:
- ideas for schools & universities
- a checklist for use by schools
- pointers to future pan-London collaboration.
Find out about the courses available in universities in London by visiting www.studylondon.ac.uk/courses.
Archive News
- Commendation of SHELL approach in The Hughes Report to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
- The Rt Hon. Simon Hughes MP (in his role as Advocate for Access to Education) strongly commends a regional approach to collaboration by HEIs to make their outreach work with schools more effective...
- Strengthening School-HE Links in London
- Over 100 delegates from the schools and HE sectors attended a seminar held at Senate House in central London on 27 June 2011...
- Student finance from September 2012
- BIS has published new guidance for students thinking of going to university in 2012 ...
- HE Links Seminar triggers invitation to schools to strengthen an HEI relationship
- The Department for Education (DfE) has written to London secondary school headteachers inviting them to bid for small grants to help them to develop and deepen their relationship with a selected HEI...
- Become a School Governor in London
- A new leaflet to encourage staff and students in London HEIs on becoming school governors in primary and secondary schools has just been produced...
- Helping London universities contact your school
- The SHELL team wishes to create an online SHELL Directory of contacts in schools...
- Helping schools to contact London universities
- A new SHELL publication entitled 'Your school's at-a-glance SHELL Guide to contacting London universities' ...
- Strengthening school-HE partnership in collaboration with London’s students’ unions
- John Hall, Head of SHELL, delivered a talk to incoming University of London students’ union representatives on 9 July 2010 as part of their summer training programme...
- Higher Education and Schools Partnerships Conference, 25 May 2010
- Professor Malcolm Gillies opened the Neil Stewart Associates conference held in London on 25 May 2010...
- SHELL seminar on university-school relationships, 4 May 2010
- Entitled 'Findings from the three HEFCE-funded studies of university-school relationships undertaken in London’...
- SHELL Conference 9 March 2010
- View keynote presentation and delegate pack handouts...
- London Education Partnership Awards (LEPA)
- The LEPA were presented on 7 June 2010....
- Helping university staff to demonstrate their community engagement
- A number of universities across the country have been designated as 'beacons' for examining community engagement...
- Connecting London's schools and universities
- Delivering practical benefits for both sides.
Article published in Central Government (Issue 19) October 2009... - Universities working with London's schools
- A working partnership.
Article published in Central Government (Issue 18) April 2009... - The SHELL Delivery Plan (2009-11): Building stronger school-university partnerships in London
- Submitted to the Minister for London Schools in April 2009...
The London School and HE picture
The statistics on young people’s progression to higher education in London paint an encouraging, if patchy, picture.
Proportion of young people from low income backgrounds progressing to higher education.*
* Data collected for National Indicator 106 (2006/7)
Proportion
- 21% to 29%
- 11% to 20%
- 0% to 10%
- n/a
