STRATHCLYDE University has scored a double win in the Guardian University Awards for programmes supporting transgender staff and students, and students with experience of the care system.
The university won the Retention, Support and Student Outcomes award for its Strathclyde Cares programme, which helps students with experience of the care system throughout their higher education journey, from pre-application to graduation and beyond.
It also took the Advancing Staff Equality award for the TransEDU project, a research programme examining the support needs of transgender applicants, students and staff in universities and colleges.
Strathclyde Cares, the first programme of its kind in the UK, co-ordinates the broad range of the university’s support activities for young people with experience of the care system.
Over eight years to 2017, there has been a 168 per cent increase in applicants to Strathclyde declaring a care background; a 305 per cent increase in the number of offers to those declaring care experience; and a 442 per cent increase in the number of such students registering.
The TransEDU project has, for the first time in the UK, published research findings specifically on the experience of trans and gender diverse people in the FE and HE sectors.
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