Stand Alone Pledge Awards 2023
The Stand Alone Pledge Awards 2023
Driving institutional change
This year's awards highlight and celebrate how the Pledge has brought about change in the institutional support for estranged students.
It's not just about Finance
National online conference 7 December 2022
The cost of living crisis is affecting higher education students, and especially those estranged from parents & families. The HE sector is working hard to find ways to manage student poverty and havin...
Stand Alone Pledge Awards 2022
The Stand Alone Pledge awards 2022 are for innovation and creativity in supporting estranged students's emotional wellbeing.
Identifying and Reaching Estranged Students
National online conference 28 March 2022
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Stand Alone Pledge Awards 2018 - 2021
Stand Alone Pledge Awards 2018, 2020 and 2021
2021
For the Stand Alone Pledge Awards 2021 estranged students nominated their higher education institution. 52 students from 14 universities submitted their nominations.
A Stand Alone Pled...
Student Voice in Scottish Parliament: 18 September 2019
Estranged students in HE: Finding a sense of home
Stand Alone held a Student Voice event at Scottish Parliament on 18 September 2019. The event was hosted by Gillian Martin MSP. Speakers and a panel of four current estranged studen...
Gathering Data and Measuring Outcomes: 18 June 2019
Measuring and evaluating the impact and effectiveness of interventions for estranged students is difficult without any national data sets available.
But there are ways to gather and use quantitative data and qualitative measures to ident...
Stand Alone conference Wales: 07 May 2019
Developing support for estranged students in higher education in Wales, Cardiff University
Estranged students are young people studying without the support and approval of a family network. Young people in this position often have no contact at al...
The Stand Alone Pledge - celebrating 2 years: 08 November 2018
On 19 October 2016 we officially launched the Stand Alone Pledge for higher education institutions. Some of you may remember the conference we held to mark that day.
Two years on the Pledge has made a significant difference to support fo...
