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Action on Access, UK    

http://www.actiononaccess.org/index.php
Program: Aimhigher, UK http://www.aimhigher.ac.uk/sites/practitioner/programme_information/index.cfm
Africa Higher Education Collaborative (AHEC)
  
http://www.africahighered.org/
Association of African Universities, Ghana http://www.aau.org/
Conference:
http://www.adeanet.org:8080/adeaPortal/accueil/welcome.jsp (Maputo, May 5-9, 2008)
http://www.adeanet.org/Biennale%202008/en_index.htm
Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation, Canada

http://www.millenniumscholarships.ca/en/index.asp
http://www.millenniumscholarships.ca/en/newsevents/index.asp
Conference: Neither a Moment Nor a Mind to Waste, Toronto, April 2008.    http://www.neitheramoment.com/
Papers:   
http://www.neitheramoment.com/_documents/Marshalling-en.pdf
http://www.neitheramoment.com/_documents/Career%20Dev-en.pdf
http://www.neitheramoment.com/_documents/Partnering-en.pdf
http://www.neitheramoment.com/_documents/StrategyPractice-en.pdf
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie, Gates, Hewlett Foundations Unite to Tackle Roadblocks to Student Success
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/news/sub.asp?key=51&subkey=2945
Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
Project 1999-2007 (International/student financing/higher education):
http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/IntHigherEdFinance/about.html
Center for Higher Education Analysis, Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, USA
http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa
Project: Financial Aid and Access:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/fa&a/
Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA
 
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org
Bibliographical listing: Access and Equity Policies: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/ihec/policy/policy_access.html
Centre for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA


http://cshe.berkeley.edu/about/index.php
Dissertation - Access: MacLachlan, Anne
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/minorityphd/ (2005)
Research and Occasional Paper:
2007 - The Immigrant University… http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=291 (2007)
2007 - A New Generation…
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/SERU.NewGenerationReport2007.pdf (2007)
2006 - Opportunity in a Democratic Society…
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=237
2006 – Affirmative Action…India and US…
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=227
Centre for Higher Education Transformation, South Africa
Responding to the Educational Needs of Post-school Youth
Determining the scope of the problem and developing a capacity-building model. First Draft Synthesis Report June 2009
http://www.chet.org.za/webfm_send/424

Report: Governing Access
http://www.chet.org.za/webfm_send/246  (2006)
Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal
http://www.fup.pt/cipes/en_investigacao.htm
Access Project http://acessproject.blogspot.com/
Council of Europe

http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/HigherEducation/
CompletedActivities/Access_EN.asp
Recommendations by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on Access in Higher Education, adopted in1998
https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=469829&Back
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Project publications:
http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/HigherEducation/CompletedActivities/Access_EN.asp
Education Policy Institute, USA


http://www.educationalpolicy.org/aboutEPI/default.htm
Focus Areas: http://www.educationalpolicy.org/Focus/default.htm
Publications: http://www.educationalpolicy.org/pub/default.htm
European Access Network, UK


http://www.ean-edu.org/
European Commission, Belgium
Experts Research Group Analyses: http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/progress-on-debate/expert-groups-analyses_en.html
European University Association, Belgium

http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=1
Publications: http://www.eua.be/c404
EUA Working Group on Open Access: http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=396&0=
Recommendations and Statement
Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, USA
Higher Education in the 21st Century: Access and Equity, 2007-2008
http://www.cies.org/NCS/2007_2008/
Higher Education Funding Council for England, UK
Widening Participation: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/widen/
Institute for Higher Education Policy, USA


http://www.ihep.org
Report: http://www.ihep.org/assets/files/publications/g-l/Higher_Education_in_Michigan.pdf
(March 2008)
International Institute for Educational Planning, France
Access and Finance/EdSup Infolink: http://lst-iiep.iiep-unesco.org/wwwisis/studsup.htm
(Irish) National Office of Equity of Access to Higher Education, Higher Education Authority, Ireland National Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education, 2008-2013
http://www.hea.ie/en/access
Irish Universities Association, Ireland


Widening Participation:
http://www.iua.ie/iua-activities/widening-participation.html
Higher Education Access Route:
http://www.iua.ie/iua-activities/documents/hea_acc_route.pdf
Lumina Foundation for Education, USA   

http://www.luminafoundation.org
Program: http://www.KnowHow2GO.org
http://view.lfemail.org/?j=fe5a1575736305747611&m=
ff2a1173706c&ls=fdeb11787162017f72137677
http://www.knowhow2go.org/
http://www.knowhow2go.org/about.php
National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good   
http://www.thenationalforum.org/
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, UK    http://www.niace.org.uk/
OECD (France)


Overview http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/4/40345176.pdf
OECD Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society: OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education: Synthesis Report (p.18. Overview Table 2e: Policy Directions for Achieving Equity) 2008.
Higher Education and Adult Learning: http://www.oecd.org/about/0,3347,en_2649_39263238_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
Office for Fair Access, UK   
http://www.offa.org.uk/
Open University, UK


http://www3.open.ac.uk/about/
Pathways to College Network, USA
http://www.pathwaystocollege.net/
Report: A Shared Agenda: A Leadership Challenge to College Access and Success
http://www.pathwaystocollege.net/pdf/sharedagenda_FullReport.pdf (2004)
Queen’s University and University of Toronto, Canada



http://www.queensu.ca/csd/documents/FINAL_AshfordJune6.EquiQual.pdf
Panel member on “The Challenge of Quality and Access – Approaches and Perspectives” (with Ian Clark, Phil Oreopoulos, and Adam Fair) at the Conference on “Quality and Equitable Access to Postsecondary Education in Canada” organized by the Centre for the Study for Democracy, Queen’s University and the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 7, 2008.
SURF, The Netherlands
 
 

2009: Open Access Year.
Collaborative project of, i.a. the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Press statement: http://www.surffoundation.nl/smartsite.dws?ch=ENG&id=14135
The Institute for College Access and Success, USA

http://www.ticas.org
Projects on student debt: http://www.ticas.org/ourwork.vp.html
The Higher Education Academy, UK


http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/199.htm
Report: Embedding Widening Participation and Promoting Student Diversity.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/resources/
publications/embedding_wp_business (2007)
Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL), UK   
http://www.uall.ac.uk/

•    The list is neither exhaustive, nor representative. It serves as an interactive, dynamic listing of interesting projects, conferences, papers and/or organizations involved with access issues in several parts of the world.
•     If you have recently attended an exciting conference on access, written or read an article/paper/dissertation or book on the topic and would like to share this, send us the information! 

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