One evidence-led platform
Every audience works on the same governed platform, so the offer is tailored but the foundations, safeguarding and reporting are shared.
Who we help
One platform, every audience in the admissions journey
AVA sits behind universities, schools, the NHS and employers, access organisations and the students themselves. Each gets a tailored offer; all share one evidence-led platform.
For universities
For universities and medical schools
Pilot AVA with a defined outreach or applicant cohort and see aggregate usage, readiness and admissions outcomes without adding a heavy operational burden.
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For NHS and employers
For the NHS and workforce programmes
Build earlier, fairer clinical and professional talent pipelines with preparation that reflects professional judgement and patient-facing values.
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For access organisations
For access and third-sector organisations
Give students one coherent preparation journey while your team keeps the relationships, safeguarding and programme narrative that make the work trusted.
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For corporate philanthropy
For corporate philanthropy and foundations
Fund a defined cohort, track cost per outcome and give your board a clear evidence story about what changed for students without private networks.
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For medical schools
For medical and dental schools
Prepare future medics and dentists for selection and evaluate the journey from application to shortlist, interview and offer under admissions-safe data-sharing agreements.
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For local authorities
For local authorities
Extend specialist admissions and careers support to the young people your statutory duties cover, with safeguarding at the centre.
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For government
For government and policy bodies
A safe, governed and evidence-led AI platform that supports national widening-access and workforce priorities.
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A tailored offer on common foundations
Whoever you are, you are working on the same evidence-led platform. The framing changes by sector; the foundations do not.
One platform
Every audience
Universities, schools, the NHS and employers, access partners and students all work on the same governed platform.
Tailored
By sector
The offer is shaped to each audience, but safeguarding, reporting and the student experience stay shared.
Free
At the point of use
The students who need it most reach the full platform free, funded through the partnership rather than charged to families.
Board-ready
Reporting
Each partner gets reporting fit for an evaluation team, a funder and an access board, with evidence framed honestly.
Why this matters
Different audiences, one documented gap
Universities, the NHS, access organisations and government are working on different parts of the same problem: access to selective routes still tracks background more than potential. These are public figures, each carrying its source.
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.
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the estimated cost to the UK each year of nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training.
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the gap in learning between disadvantaged pupils and their peers by the end of secondary school, wider than before the pandemic.
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disadvantaged young people are twice as likely to be out of education, employment or training as their better-off peers.
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more likely to reach Oxbridge if you attend an independent school rather than a state school.
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of senior professionals were privately educated, against six per cent of the population.
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Senior judges
75%
Finance directors
70%
Members of Parliament
32%
The population overall
7%
Share from independent schools, against seven per cent of the population. A public figure carrying its source, not an AVA claim.
Sources
- 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
A documented problem, decades deep
From the Milburn review naming the professions a closed shop to one million young people now out of education or work, the case has been made and remade. AVA is built to be the next, measurable step.
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.
What every partnership shares
Tailored by audience, built on common foundations
The offer differs by sector, but the platform underneath does not. Every partnership stands on the same four foundations.
Free at the point of use
The students who need it most reach the full platform free at the point of use, funded through the partnership rather than charged to families.
Safe for under-18s by design
Triple-lock moderation, logging and clear safeguarding escalation run on every input path, because the users are 16 to 18.
Reporting you can take to a board
Each partner gets reporting fit for an evaluation team, a funder and an access board, with the evidence framed honestly.
What partners say
Why partners value one shared platform
“We came in as a university outreach team, but the value was seeing the same platform serve the schools and charities we already work with. One join-up instead of four tools.”
Outreach partnerships lead
University widening access team
“The fact that the student experience and safeguarding are identical across every audience is what let us recommend it across a whole trust, not just one school.”
Director of sixth form
Multi-academy trust
“For us the appeal was a workforce pipeline that starts earlier and fairer, with measurement we can actually report against. The shared evidence base does the heavy lifting.”
Workforce programme lead
NHS regional team
Trusted alongside
Universities, funders and access partners
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Institutional 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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