Analysis of access and participation plan targets in relation to OfS key performance measures: 2022 update

This analysis updates our 2020 report which sought to understand whether the targets that higher education providers set in their access and participation plans were sufficiently ambitious to make satisfactory progress at a sector level in addressing OfS long-term targets and broader objectives around equality.

We now explore how the targets for an additional 75 higher education providers with access and participation plans, together with additional historical student data, affected the ambition and likely progress at a sector level in addressing four previous OfS key performance measures (KPMs):

• The gap in participation at high-tariff providers between the most and least represented groups
• The gap in non-continuation between the most and least represented groups
• The gap in degree outcomes (1st or 2:1s) between white students and black students
• The gap in degree outcomes (1st or 2:1s) between disabled students and non-disabled students.