We recognise, and accept enthusiastically, the responsibilities we have as a modern university working to raise aspirations in surrounding communities and to regenerate a regional economy.
Our mission for widening participation is based in our local communities. We are now amongst the most successful institutions for the recruitment and retention of students from low participation areas. Our success has involved engaging positively with our local community – demystifying higher education and reducing the barriers towards attending university by active engagement with schools and colleges over many years.
Our student finance and support package reflects the fact that we are an organisation that is passionate about widening educational opportunity and the commitment that this agenda carries to social justice, equality and diversity.
With this in mind the Board of Governors of the University of Chichester has approved a fee level, to be submitted to the Office of Fair Access, of £8,500 per annum in 2012/13 for all undergraduate courses.
Our generous student support package empowers students by allowing them to decide, based on their needs and circumstances, whether to receive their support package as a fee waiver or a maintenance bursary:
•Students with a household income of less than £25,000 will be entitled to £2,500 each year of their degree course as either a bursary or a fee waiver.
•Students with a household income of between £25,001 and £42,000 will be entitled to £1,000 each year of their degree course as either a bursary or a fee waiver.
This financial package will provide support for 60% of our students and as a result our average fee will be below £7500 with students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds receiving a support package that reduces the fee equivalent to £6,000.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Clive Behagg stated: “The key to our success is the community feel of a small institution and this differentiates us from other, larger, providers. Raising aspirations and providing value for money are deeply embedded into the mission and values of the University. In these activities we offer something different and we punch above our weight. We have set our fee level at a point that will enable us to continue this important mission.”
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