Birkbeck welcomes OFFA approval of its Access agreement
Birkbeck welcomes OFFA approval of its Access agreement
Birkbeck, University of London has today, Tuesday 12 July, welcomed the vote of confidence given by OFFA to the College’s Access agreement, which was described as ‘incredibly strong’.
The agreement reflects Birkbeck’s mission as London’s evening university to widen access and increase social mobility. The College’s founder Dr George Birkbeck believed in the power of education to transform and improve lives, which has been the College’s continuing, core mission since 1823. Birkbeck is committed not only to teaching excellence but to the innovative organisation and flexible delivery of teaching that genuinely responds to the needs, changing circumstances and funding realities faced by our students.
The Access agreement and information tables relate only to Birkbeck’s full-time (accelerated part-time) offer to undergraduate students, which currently covers 20 full-time equivalent programmes for 2012-13; therefore, the information applies to a small percentage of its student body. The College makes no distinction between outreach, retention and financial support for full-or part-time students. (Birkbeck cannot discuss its part-time fees with OFFA because part-time fees are currently unregulated and will remain so until the Education Bill is passed this autumn.)
Having OFFA’s approval allows the College to proceed with its plans for fees which were announced by the College last week.