Pilot without premature lock-in
Start with a bounded outreach, applicant or programme cohort and test student use, staff workload and value before any long-term commitment.
Who we help
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.
What we offer
Specialist support, built around this audience
Access spending is increasingly asked to show what it changed, not what it intended. Universities need evidence they can take to access committees, APP planning and governance teams. AVA gives students a preparation layer, most of them applying without the tutoring or the family knowledge their competitors have, and gives your team aggregate reporting on usage, dosage, applications, shortlisting, interviews and offers where data sharing allows.
Aggregate outcomes and dosage
Report engagement bands, readiness signals, applications, shortlisting, interviews and offers at cohort level under agreed data-sharing terms.
Access and participation evidence
Build baselines, cohort comparisons and future evaluation evidence that can inform access and participation planning without overstating the current data.
Governance-ready data sharing
Consent, data minimisation, DPIA materials, privacy language and aggregate reporting are scoped before outcomes are linked.
What this puts in place
Free at the point of use for widening participation students
Pathways covered end to end on one platform
Interview practice against real selection criteria
Outcome claims reviewed against agreed comparatorsEvidence review
A practical delivery view: live product capability, safeguarded implementation, cohort evidence and formal evidence review kept clearly apart.
How the partnership works
From a briefing to measurable change
Every engagement follows the same defensible sequence, scoped to your context. Students from widening participation backgrounds always use AVA free.
01
Scope the cohort
A short briefing maps your students, current provision, delivery constraints and the evidence goals you need to satisfy internally.
02
Design the offer
We shape a pilot or partnership around your audience, with widening-participation students free at the point of use and safeguarding built into every input path.
03
Deliver and support
Students get specialist preparation across the subjects you care about, with staff oversight, reporting you can show, and onboarding that is light to stand up.
04
Measure and grow
We baseline and follow up, link to outcomes wherever data sharing allows, and grow a successful pilot towards lasting infrastructure.
One platform, every subject this audience needs
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By the numbers
What this partnership can move
2.5x
Oxbridge conversion uplift
20+
subject pipelines
7-8
medical-school data relationships
AVA students are 4x more likely to get into medical school (92% versus 22%), and 2x more likely to get into Oxbridge across subjects.
Why this matters
The case for this work, in public data
These are documented, externally published figures on the access and workforce gap this sector faces. Each carries its source, and together they set the bar for what would count as real progress here.
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.
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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.
ExplorePrivately educated, by profession10
Senior judges
75%
Finance directors
70%
Members of Parliament
32%
The population overall
7%
2009 snapshot from the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, against 7 per cent of the population in independent schools.
What this means here
Pilot AVA with a defined outreach or applicant cohort and see aggregate usage, readiness and admissions outcomes without adding a heavy operational burden.
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.
How we deliver
The services behind this
Product, platform and consultancy in one partnership, scoped to what this audience needs.
What is included
One partnership, the whole platform
Every partnership includes the same foundations, whatever the sector. The platform, free access for the students who need it, safeguarding by design, and reporting you can put in front of your board.
The full student platform
Specialist preparation across every subject this audience needs, from subject choice and personal statements to interviews and transition, on one platform.
Free access for the students who need it
Students from widening participation backgrounds always use AVA free at the point of use. The model is designed so cost never decides who gets specialist support.
Safeguarding built in
Every input path is moderated and logged, with age-appropriate filtering and an escalation route to a designated safeguarding lead. It sits in the architecture from the first release.
Reporting you can show
A view of activation, practice and progression you can put in front of a board, a funder or a regulator, with the evidence language scoped to what the data can honestly support.
Safeguarding by design
Built safe for under-18s
Students are 16 to 18, so safeguarding sits in the architecture. Every input path is moderated, age-appropriate, logged and escalated to a named lead when it matters.
Moderation on every input
Student inputs pass through layered moderation before any AI response. Concerning patterns are caught early, not after the fact.
Age-appropriate by default
The product is built for 16 to 18 year olds. Content, tone and access are tuned for that age group, and access is restricted overnight to protect vulnerable users.
Logged and auditable
Inputs and responses are logged so a safeguarding concern can be reviewed and a partner can satisfy its own audit and assurance duties.
Escalation to a named lead
Serious concerns suspend the session and escalate to a designated safeguarding lead. The route is clear and the responsibility never falls through a gap.
How we measure
Honest evidence you can check yourself
Every figure here comes with the baseline, the comparator and the limits that let you defend it. We baseline first, keep observation and cause clearly apart, and link to real outcomes where the data allows.
Baseline before we begin
We capture a starting picture of confidence, readiness and provision so any later change has something honest to be measured against.
Separate observation from cause
Cohort findings describe what we see in a current group, and they are labelled as observation. Causal language waits for the randomised trial and the comparator behind it.
Link to real outcomes
Where data sharing agreements allow, we connect preparation to interviews and offers, so the evidence reflects outcomes that matter rather than activity alone.
Data protection and governance
Ready for your due diligence
We come to procurement with the governance already done: DPIA-ready processing, DfE-aligned AI safety, data minimisation and a clear promise that student data is never sold or used to train foundation models.
DPIA-ready processing
We complete a data protection impact assessment and share it during due diligence, so your information governance team can assess the processing before any student joins.
DfE-aligned AI safety
Filtering, monitoring, activity logging, safeguarding escalation and age-appropriate design are built around Department for Education generative AI product safety standards.
No selling or model training
Student data is minimised, used to deliver the service, never sold and not used to train foundation models. Any outcome linkage runs under a specific data-sharing agreement.
Onboarding and support
Light to start, supported all the way
A pilot is quick to stand up and a named contact stays with it for the life of the partnership. They know your programme and report back on a regular rhythm, written for the people who account for it internally.
Light to stand up
A pilot can run without a heavy integration or replacing existing careers platforms. Students join through a simple sign-in, and your team gets a short walkthrough rather than a long implementation project.
A named point of contact
Every partnership has a named contact who knows your programme, checks in on a regular rhythm and makes sure the partnership keeps delivering against your goals.
Reporting on a regular rhythm
You receive a clear progress view at agreed points, written in plain language for the people who have to account for the programme internally.
University value
Pilot-ready evidence for access teams
AVA is designed for the university buyer who wants to understand what is happening, test it safely, and turn a useful pilot into evidence they can defend internally.
Defined pilot cohort
Start with a bounded outreach, applicant or programme cohort so the university can test value before long-term adoption.
Aggregate reporting
Report engagement, dosage, readiness and progression at cohort level, with outcome linkage where data sharing allows.
APP-ready learning
Build evidence that can inform future access and participation planning without presenting early pilot data as more than it is.
Low operational burden
Students access the platform directly; staff receive briefing, dashboards and review points rather than another delivery workload.
Trusted alongside
Working with universities, funders and access partners
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Questions
What partners ask first
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Who else we help
See every audience AVA partners with, from universities to government.
OpenWhat we offer
Product, platform and consultancy, scoped to your programme.
OpenSubjects and timelines
Explore the guided application timeline for any subject we support.
OpenEvidence and due diligence
How we separate cohort outcomes, observations and causal conclusions.
OpenStudents from widening participation backgrounds always use AVA free. Premium independent and international cohorts can help fund free access for state-school and widening-participation students, so higher-resource provision expands opportunity rather than narrowing it.
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.
Book a 15-minute AI-readiness call
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