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Cohort and partnership analysis
Internal observational findings on engagement and readiness, with comparators defined and the limits of each claim stated in plain language.
Resources
Everything in one place
Our policy and AI governance, the evidence base, the student guidance inside the platform and the recognition behind AVA. Built to be shared with leadership, governors and funders.
For decision makers
The institutional evidence pack
What a director, evaluator or board needs to scrutinise AVA before a pilot: our policy and AI governance, the standards we build to, the services on offer and how partnerships are shaped.
Policy and AI governance
Safeguarding, AI governance, the public-data picture and the level of detail we can show in due diligence.
OpenOur services
Product, platform and consultancy in one accountable partnership.
OpenWho we help
Universities, the NHS, access organisations, funders and government, each with a tailored offer.
OpenPartnerships
Who we work with and how a pilot is scoped, costed and evidenced at each gate.
OpenWhat is inside
A pack built for scrutiny
The resource hub is weighted towards the things a serious partner actually checks. Evidence and governance lead, with student-facing guidance and perspective alongside.
What the pack contains
Evidence and due diligence pack
Policy, safeguarding and governance
Services and partnership scoping
Applicant-facing student guidance
Each item is available to review during due diligence. Status reflects what is built today, not a future promise.
For staff and students
Guidance that sits inside the platform
The applicant-facing material your students actually use, plus the subject pipelines and AI coaches behind it. Free for every widening participation student.
Student guides
Applicant-facing guidance on admissions tests, personal statements and interviews, written for 16 to 18 year olds.
OpenExplore the subjects
Pick any subject and see its full application timeline, from aspiration through to offer.
OpenHow it works
The student journey from question to feedback inside the live AVA platform.
OpenTry AVA free
Open the student platform and see the preparation experience your cohort would get.
OpenEvery subject the guidance covers
Explore the timeline for any subjectUsed where it matters
The same specialist support, in every classroom that needs it
The guidance and practice your students reach is the same material AVA refines from real classrooms and live feedback, free for every widening participation student.
The footprint behind it
Guidance shaped by real students
The resources are not static documents. They are drawn from a live platform, improved in short cycles from real student feedback, with every fix locked so it cannot regress.
20+
subject pipelines covered by the guidance
13
specialist AI interview coaches documented
24/7
access to practice and feedback for students
AVA students are 4x more likely to get into medical school (92% versus 22%), and 2x more likely to get into Oxbridge across subjects.
The evidence base
The public data behind the library
The resource library does not start with our own numbers. It starts with the documented landscape on access to selective courses and the professions. These are public figures, each carrying its source, so you can check every one.
1.01m6
16 to 24 year-olds are not in education, employment or training, the first time the total has passed one million since 2013.
Explore£125bn7
the estimated cost to the UK each year of nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training.
Explore19.1 months8
the gap in learning between disadvantaged pupils and their peers by the end of secondary school, wider than before the pandemic.
Explore2x9
disadvantaged young people are twice as likely to be out of education, employment or training as their better-off peers.
Explore7x1
more likely to reach Oxbridge if you attend an independent school rather than a state school.
Explore36% vs 6%2
of senior professionals were privately educated, against six per cent of the population.
ExploreSources
- 1Sutton Trust, Access to Advantage.
- 2Sutton Trust, Elitist Britain 2025.
- 3UCAS, Growing demand for higher education.
- 4Medical Schools Council, Selecting for Excellence and contextual admissions.
- 5NHS England, NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
- 6Office for National Statistics, Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), UK.
- 7Department for Work and Pensions, Young people and work: interim report.
- 8Education Policy Institute, Annual Report 2025: Disadvantage.
- 9Impetus, Youth Jobs Gap.
- 10Cabinet Office (Panel chaired by Alan Milburn), Unleashing Aspiration: Fair Access to the Professions.
- 11Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission, Elitist Britain 2019.
- 12Medical Schools Council, Fostering Potential: 10 years on from Selecting for Excellence.
- 13Sutton Trust, Unequal Treatment: access to medicine for disadvantaged students.
- 14NHS England Digital, NHS Vacancy Statistics.
- 15British Medical Association, Medical school expansion campaign.
- 16Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2024: Local to National.
- 17Demos and Co-op, The Opportunity Effect: how social mobility can help drive business and the economy forward.
- 18Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, AI Skills Boost: free AI training for 10 million workers by 2030.
- 19Department for Education, 450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools.
The arc the library documents
A problem with a paper trail decades long
The library sets AVA against a documented arc, from the moment fair access to the professions was named a problem to the trial that will test whether AVA moves it. Read the method before any single figure.
2009
Fair access named a closed shop10
The Milburn panel found medicine and law the most socially exclusive professions, with doctors typically growing up in the best-off families of any profession.
2014
Selecting for Excellence4
UK medical schools commit to contextual admissions, outreach and alternative routes to widen who applies and who is selected.
2019
Elitist Britain11
The country's leading people remain five times more likely to have been privately educated than the population as a whole.
2025
Progress, not parity13
The independent-school share of medicine entrants has fallen, yet just 5 per cent of entrants are working-class and advantaged applicants are still around 1.5 times more likely to get an offer.
2026
One million not in education or work6
Youth disengagement passes one million for the first time since 2013, at an estimated cost of £125 billion a year.
Evidence review
The AVA evaluation design
Evaluation work tests whether structured preparation changes offer rates. Causal language requires comparator definitions, documented limits and formal review.
Perspective and recognition
How we think, and who has noticed
Our institutional point of view on AI in admissions, the team behind the work, and the independent recognition the founder and platform have received.
Insights and perspectives
Our positions on AI governance, evidence and reaching students earlier in the admissions journey.
OpenFounder and leadership
The founder-led team, the lived experience AVA is built around and the recognition it has earned.
OpenAbout AVA
Our mission, our widening participation principle and how the institutional offer fits together.
OpenInside the library
What the resource library actually holds
Beyond the headline links, the library is the working material a serious partner reviews. Evidence, governance and subject coverage, all written to be read by people who are not technical.
Evaluation design
The evaluation design, comparator definitions and measurement plan, so an evaluator can judge the method before relying on a claim.
Safeguarding and data documentation
The safeguarding model, data protection impact assessment material and data-sharing workflows a risk assessment needs.
Applicant-facing guidance
The admissions test, personal statement and interview guidance students use inside the platform, written for 16 to 18 year olds.
Policy alignment notes
How AVA maps to the Department for Education generative AI expectations and the Information Commissioner Children’s Code, for a board paper.
Subject coverage maps
The full application timeline for every subject pipeline, so you can see exactly what a student in your cohort would be supported through.
How partners use it
From a pack on a screen to a decision you can defend
The resources are built to do a job. Here is how a partner typically moves from reading the material to scoping a pilot and taking it to a board.
01
Scrutinise
Leadership, governors and evaluators read the evidence and governance material to decide whether AVA can stand up to institutional review.
02
Scope
The safeguarding, data and subject coverage material shapes a pilot that fits your cohort, your constraints and the outcomes you care about.
03
Share
The same pack supports an external partnership decision and an internal evidence case, so one set of material serves both audiences.
Reading the evidence
How to read the evidence honestly
Every figure here arrives with the baseline behind it, the comparator it was measured against and the limits of what it can support. Three habits make the material easy to scrutinise.
Start with the method
Read how baselines and comparators are agreed before any number is reported. The method tells you more about reliability than any single figure.
Separate the claim types
Engagement, observational findings and causal claims are kept distinct throughout. Knowing which is which is the whole point of honest evidence.
Hold us to the caveats
Outcome figures come from internal cohort analysis, not a completed trial. The caveats sit in plain sight so you can weigh every claim fairly.
Common questions
What partners ask about the pack
If you are deciding whether AVA can stand up to institutional scrutiny, start here.
Explore more
Policy and AI governance
How we measure what changed, with honest evidence language.
OpenOur services
Product, platform and consultancy in one partnership.
OpenWho we help
Tailored offers across universities, schools, the NHS and the third sector.
OpenAbout AVA
Our mission, principles and founder-led team.
OpenInstitutional partnership briefing
Bring AVA into your access, admissions or workforce strategy
We will map your cohort, current provision, delivery constraints and evidence goals, then recommend a pilot or partnership shape that can stand up to institutional scrutiny.
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