Engaging With Outreach Team Activities

Introduction

While education remains the most important component in the society, some of the people still do not enjoy the privilege. The world still records significant rates of illiteracy or youths who have never been to colleges and universities. In the 21st century, the record of young people that are not training, employed or not schooling is quite evident. The same records indicate that only half of the young people can afford higher education England, leaving behind a significant number of young people who are never attended to. England has a record of only 49% of the young people who are said to have pursued advanced studies at the age of 30 years (Smith 2015). At the same time, young people share the hopes of degrees gained in United Kingdom as having a great potential that enables them to have better jobs in the society.

With the findings established in the above case, there has been a research gap that calls for possible initiatives that can enable youths to proceed with higher education. The gap is quite evident due to the fact that the number of youths who do not proceed to high education is still on the rise. However, there have been problems with identifying the group of young people said to have failed to proceed with higher education. Besides, there is a rising consultative need in the society to young people who still have the urge to learn but are never provided with the opportunity. Societal initiatives purposed to support young people are still missing in the society.

The idea behind developing the consultative project is to serve the rising need of the young people who are not pursuing higher education. While some are willing to drop out of the school, others still have the urge of extending their academic life and develop a better profile in life. The engagement of interviews is to enable the project to find out the key issues affecting young people, and whether the outreach initiative can solve the issue.

Aims and Objectives

The central purpose of this consultative project is to realize the impact of the outreach team activities among youths, and evaluate the rate of proceeding to high education among young people. The supporting objectives are as follows.

To examine the rate of young people who never proceed with higher education

To determine factors and reasons that make young people not to proceed into higher education

To explore the tendency of success if young people are provided with a chance to proceed into higher education

To determine events that can motivate young people to pursue higher education

To assess the impact of the outreach team activities based on the feedback provided in the field

Scope and limitation

The study incorporates interviews and surveys as part of steps towards establishing significant findings related to the topic above. While focusing on the research objectives established above, the research process will revolve around issues and factors that affect young people said to have failed to proceed into higher education. This will revolve around group of youths in London and its environs while establishing the impact of the outreach initiatives established in this project. While interviews and surveys increase the face to face interaction between the researcher and interviewees, the process still encounters a few limitations. Notably, engaging young people can only be made possible through social media platforms; there are still problems in establishing groups on these platforms.

Literature Review

This chapter explores cases that can be linked to the research topic as documented in some of the materials. Some of the sources to be applied include publications and journal articles that address the topic.

Rates of young people who never proceed into higher education

The background information established the fact that only half of the students manage to proceed into higher education at the age of 30 years. This part will look at the trends in the education sector while establishing possible numbers of young people who never proceed into higher education. However, this will depend on what is provided in the publications.

Factors and reasons that impede young people to added higher education

There are reasons and factors that make young people in UK not to attend the higher education. Some of them include the costs of higher education, the confidence, family issues and the preference of earning income to studying (Vitone et al. 2016). Other areas of interest include the personal difficulties, academic issues, loss of interest and lack of self-regulation skills.

Tendency of success for young people provided with a chance to proceed with higher education

While exploring opportunities provided to young people in joining the higher learning education institution, it is also significant to determine the success of the initiatives that are involved in the process. The likely opportunities under assessment include the grants and loans that can be provided to young people.

Events and initiatives that can motivate young people to attend higher education

The literature review will also determine the events and initiatives that can possibly motivate young people in considering the significance of higher education. Some of the initiatives include the activities provided in the university, evening activities, local initiatives and family sessions (Callender and Jackson 2005). The project will explore case studies and other researches relevant to the idea of events and initiatives in support of higher education.

Impact of outreach initiatives

The project will establish sources that are linked to the outreach initiatives that have been established elsewhere, as well as determine their impact. This will help in creating the picture over the impact outreach team activities as far as the society is put into consideration.

Research method

The project will depend on the qualitative research method in establishing data collection techniques and the sampling tools. Qualitative research is explorative and can serve the advantage of explaining certain behaviours related to young people in the society.

Data Collection

The project will invest in two techniques of data collection. First, the project will rely on interviews, which can be substantiated into questionnaires in cases where the respondents are reached out in their destinations. In other cases, Facebook, local libraries, twitter and schools form important platforms where one can tap the respondents. Secondly, the project will invest in surveys, which include making significant observations within and without the university.

Sampling

The project will establish categories through which important details can be tapped from. Stratified sampling is the potential technique that allows one to establish strata. Under each stratum, the project can establish the commonalities and differences noted across the groups.

Data analysis

Researches where qualitative method is applied, thematic coding is thought to be the appropriate method for data analysis. Thematic coding allows one to interact with data from the questionnaire or the interview process while trying to understand the details. Thematic coding allows one to assign codes to various descriptions and pave way for note taking. The analytical tool also allows one to establish significant themes that can easily be attached to the research topic. Such themes can easily be interpreted before arriving at significant conclusions.

Issue (Findings)

This chapter will establish issues or the findings from the interview process. First, it will be good to note the challenges met during the research process. During the interview and survey process, it was difficult to engage the youths in the society. Most of them could not find time to take part in the initiative while others developed a negative attitude. Despite the challenges, the project could still find the following. First, over half of the youths in the society resolved to work than pursue further studies. Other youths dropped out of school due to family issues, financial constraints and lack of better skills that can support them for higher education. It was also noted that 90% of the youths are willing enough to proceed with education if given an opportunity. Almost 78% of the respondents believe that events and activities introduced in the university and the local environment can spark a new spirit that will propel youths to pursue advanced studies (Khattab 2015). Finally, the outreach team initiative and activities proved relevant in making youths understand the importance of considering higher education.

Act in Education

The section provides insights of possible ideas that can boost the impact of the outreach initiatives. The 2004 Higher Education Act avails the desirable force that extends loans to students. This is a new initiative that can be integrated into the outreach team activities, which focus on convincing young people to reconsider the higher education. On the other hand, The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 is an extra initiative that can be added to the framework of the outreach team (Universities 2017). The act considers employment of graduates while promoting provisions of the higher education in UK.

Conclusion and Recommendation

Provides a summary of the project

Explores chances of implementing the activities in subsequent cases

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• Provides extra data attached to the project such as statistics