Supporting forced-migrants’ pathways to and through university: what were the aims, processes and outcomes of a collaboration between a university and their local government authority?

This article charts the origins, beginnings, processes and outcomes of a project to offer appropriate language training to forced-migrants whose access to higher education had been interrupted. Qualifying individuals were offered the chance to progress with the relevant language training to a level appropriate for higher education, and on the basis that after completion they would be applying to study at a UK university. It outlines the challenges involved, the impact the project had on all participants and what was learned in the process. It also highlights the development of a founding relationship between a university and its local government authority, to deliver this initiative and carry it forward, and explains how it was achieved.