Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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I think that we are in very real danger of throwing away all of the gains made during City of Culture year. There simply isn't enough legacy activity. I like a wander around that area on a Sunday but more often than not it's empty and there is virtually nothing going on in the streets at any time now - really sad when you think back to how vibrant it was just a short while ago. It's not as if there isn't a good budget for doing stuff but looking at the size of the staff team of Absolutely Cultured it looks like it is being swallowed up by salaries - 27 staff!!!!
The company had places in Manchester and Leeds that they’ve also closed.
Already someone else locally based looking to reopen it and talking about interviewing the existing staff
 
I must say Humber street is pretty empty most of the time !
I thought it was going to be a lot more busy than it is !
 
It certainly was. I had my first "Town" pint in New York when I was fifteen, casuals on one side and punks on the other with no bother.

Great days.

Same as me then, my 1st regular town pub at the same age,...i flirted between both groups bitd, was a bit of bother once when NB r.i.p and a few others jumped some punks at the back of station, i walked into them straight afterwards but i always tended to get a pass as i was well known for going to watch city regularly at a time not many did.
 
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University of Hull beats Oxbridge in equality ranking
When it comes to equal access for poorer students less prestigious universities beat elite institutions, suggests new analysis.

Calculations for the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) put Hull Universitytop for admitting a balanced intake of rich and poor students.

Institutions like Cambridge, St Andrews, Bristol and Oxford were placed near the bottom of the table.

Cambridge welcomed "different interpretations of the data".

However, a spokesman for the university pointed out that the HEPI analysis relies on a single measure, adding "widening participation in higher education is a complex issue".

Last year the charity Teach First compared official child poverty figures with university participation rates and found young people in some of the wealthiest areas of England were 18 times more likely to go to university than those in the poorest.

Another analysis showed four fifths of students accepted at Oxford and Cambridge between 2010 and 2015 had parents in top professional and managerial jobs.

Neighbourhood chances
Each year, admissions figures, known as Participation of Local Areas (Polar), divide neighbourhoods into five groups, according to the proportion of young people going to university.

In a perfect world each university would take a fifth of its students from each group, says HEPI.

For this study, statisticians used the 2016 Polar data to rank each of the UK's 132 universities in terms of how near they came to this target.

The resulting table turns the usual university rankings upside down.

Top 10 universities for class equality
  • Hull
  • Derby
  • Edge Hill
  • Chester
  • Plymouth College of Art
  • York St John
  • Leeds Beckett
  • Worcester
  • Anglia Ruskin
  • Cardiff Metropolitan
Bottom 10 universities for class equality
  • Cambridge
  • St Andrews
  • Bristol
  • Oxford
  • Aberdeen
  • Edinburgh
  • UCL
  • Durham
  • Robert Gordon
  • LSE
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Prof Iain Martin, report author and Anglia Ruskin vice-chancellor, said that despite ongoing efforts to boost equal access to higher education: "We do not have an educational level playing field."

Nick Hillman, director of HEPI, added: "This analysis reveals which universities reflect our society best and those which have further to travel."

He said learning outcomes were better when students from diverse backgrounds studied alongside each other.

"The best way to deliver fairer access to selective institutions is the same as the best way to deliver widening participation overall, which is to provide more places," he added.

Cambridge University said the Polar data takes no account of household income or access to education and "effectively assumes that people living on the same street have the same likelihood of entering higher education as their neighbours".

The spokesman said Cambridge:

  • Runs outreach programmes across the UK to raise aspirations among under-represented and disadvantaged groups
  • Uses multiple measures to assess every applicant's educational and socio-economic background
  • In 2017 had the highest level (63%) of state school applicants for 35 years and over 20% of students describe themselves as being from an ethnic minority.
A spokesman for the Russell Group, which represents several institutions near the bottom of the table, said members were "fully committed to encouraging students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and succeed in higher education".




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43643939
 
University of Hull beats Oxbridge in equality ranking
When it comes to equal access for poorer students less prestigious universities beat elite institutions, suggests new analysis.

Calculations for the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) put Hull Universitytop for admitting a balanced intake of rich and poor students.

Institutions like Cambridge, St Andrews, Bristol and Oxford were placed near the bottom of the table.

Cambridge welcomed "different interpretations of the data".

However, a spokesman for the university pointed out that the HEPI analysis relies on a single measure, adding "widening participation in higher education is a complex issue".


Last year the charity Teach First compared official child poverty figures with university participation rates and found young people in some of the wealthiest areas of England were 18 times more likely to go to university than those in the poorest.

Another analysis showed four fifths of students accepted at Oxford and Cambridge between 2010 and 2015 had parents in top professional and managerial jobs.

Neighbourhood chances

Each year, admissions figures, known as Participation of Local Areas (Polar), divide neighbourhoods into five groups, according to the proportion of young people going to university.

In a perfect world each university would take a fifth of its students from each group, says HEPI.

For this study, statisticians used the 2016 Polar data to rank each of the UK's 132 universities in terms of how near they came to this target.

The resulting table turns the usual university rankings upside down.

Top 10 universities for class equality




    • Hull
    • Derby
    • Edge Hill
    • Chester
    • Plymouth College of Art
    • York St John
    • Leeds Beckett
    • Worcester
    • Anglia Ruskin
    • Cardiff Metropolitan
Bottom 10 universities for class equality



    • Cambridge
    • St Andrews
    • Bristol
    • Oxford
    • Aberdeen
    • Edinburgh
    • UCL
    • Durham
    • Robert Gordon
    • LSE
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Image copyrightUNIVERSITY OF HULL

Prof Iain Martin, report author and Anglia Ruskin vice-chancellor, said that despite ongoing efforts to boost equal access to higher education: "We do not have an educational level playing field."

Nick Hillman, director of HEPI, added: "This analysis reveals which universities reflect our society best and those which have further to travel."

He said learning outcomes were better when students from diverse backgrounds studied alongside each other.

"The best way to deliver fairer access to selective institutions is the same as the best way to deliver widening participation overall, which is to provide more places," he added.

Cambridge University said the Polar data takes no account of household income or access to education and "effectively assumes that people living on the same street have the same likelihood of entering higher education as their neighbours".

The spokesman said Cambridge:




    • Runs outreach programmes across the UK to raise aspirations among under-represented and disadvantaged groups
    • Uses multiple measures to assess every applicant's educational and socio-economic background
    • In 2017 had the highest level (63%) of state school applicants for 35 years and over 20% of students describe themselves as being from an ethnic minority.
A spokesman for the Russell Group, which represents several institutions near the bottom of the table, said members were "fully committed to encouraging students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and succeed in higher education".




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43643939

Oxbridge in 'class inequality' shocker.
 
The company had places in Manchester and Leeds that they’ve also closed.
Already someone else locally based looking to reopen it and talking about interviewing the existing staff
My daughter used to work at the Leeds one. They've been on the verge of closing down for months. Thankfully she found new employment at the start of the year.
 
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