{"id":2935,"date":"2021-04-12T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:13:24","slug":"the-open-universitys-young-applicants-in-schools-scheme-yass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/2021\/04\/12\/the-open-universitys-young-applicants-in-schools-scheme-yass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open University\u2019s Young Applicants in Schools Scheme (YASS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">YASS is a national bridging programme supporting pupils in preparing for the transition to Higher Education. It offers S6 students the opportunity to study university level 1 modules online alongside their other subjects. Pupils are offered a choice of modules from a range of subject areas including Business, Languages, STEM and Law, with modules carrying 10 or 30 credits at SCQF level 7.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The scheme is fully endorsed and funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and\u00a0students in local authority schools are entitled to fully funded places. YASS attainment is also included in the Scottish Government\u2019s Insight framework.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">YASS provides pupils with experience of HE level study, a breadth of subject areas beyond the school curriculum and experience of supportive, online, independent learning. All of which helps prepare students for the transition from school to university or college.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/scotland\/sites\/www.open.ac.uk.scotland\/files\/files\/YASS%20Guide%20and%20Course%20List%202021-22.pdf\">Click here to access the YASS Guide for students with course list.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For more details about the scheme you can\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/scotland\/study\/young-applicants-schools\">visit our website<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">. Applications for the 2021\/22 programme are scheduled to open\u00a0<\/span><u><a href=\"\/\/0\/\">on 19<\/a><a href=\"\/\/0\/\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/a><a href=\"\/\/0\/\">\u00a0April 2021<\/a><\/u><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0and will close in early September<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Any pupils interested in this should discuss with their pastoral support teacher.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YASS is a national bridging programme supporting pupils in preparing for the transition to Higher Education. It offers S6 students the opportunity to study university level 1 modules online alongside their other subjects. Pupils are offered a choice of modules from a range of subject areas including Business, Languages, STEM and Law, with modules carrying 10 or 30 credits at SCQF level 7. \u00a0The scheme is fully endorsed and funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and\u00a0students in local authority schools are entitled to fully funded places. YASS attainment is also included in the Scottish Government\u2019s Insight framework. \u00a0YASS provides pupils with experience of HE level study, a breadth of subject areas beyond the school curriculum and experience of supportive, online, independent learning. All of which helps prepare students for the transition from school to university or college. \u00a0Click here to access the YASS Guide for students with course list. For more details about the scheme you can\u00a0visit our website. Applications for the 2021\/22 programme are scheduled to open\u00a0on 19th\u00a0April 2021\u00a0and will close in early September Any pupils interested in this should discuss with their pastoral support teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11890],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/snhscareers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}