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Rural and coastal schools feel isolated from government support, research finds
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Feb 12, 2019
UK pledges continued support to Commonwealth’s young people
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Jan 30, 2019
The 7 per cent problem – how to address the domination of private schools
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Jan 30, 2019
Five things grammars say they will do to improve access
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Dec 3, 2018
Controlling access to school premises
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Nov 26, 2018
Access arrangements for SEND pupils fall for the first time in 5 years
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Nov 22, 2018
'Opportunities Through Apprenticeships' project is launched
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Nov 21, 2018
Government needs to improve access to apprenticeships
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Oct 12, 2018
Bold steps are needed to ensure all apprenticeships are ladders of opportunity
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Oct 8, 2018
How can we make apprenticeships more accessible?
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Oct 8, 2018
Government should adopt MPs’ recommendations on the apprenticeship reforms without delay
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Oct 8, 2018
NEU comment on Apprenticeships
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Oct 8, 2018
Making apprenticeships accessible for all
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Oct 8, 2018
Making apprenticeships accessible for all is paramount
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Oct 8, 2018
Education Secretary launches £24 million programme for employers and universities to seek out all the talent in the North East of England
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Damian Hinds
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Oct 8, 2018
Matching ambition with outcomes for fair access and participation
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Sep 6, 2018
Grammar schools: Thousands of new places created
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Aug 1, 2018
Hundreds of students miss out on Nicola Sturgeon’s bursary scheme
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Jul 26, 2018
Oxford and Cambridge singled out on access by new regulator
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Jul 19, 2018
Closing the gap in access to free ‘universal’ early education: What affects participation among low-income families?
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Jul 17, 2018
New access arrangement guidance to help ease pressure on colleges
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Jul 4, 2018
Experts call for reforms as apprenticeship numbers fall
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Jun 4, 2018
All Change: Where next for apprenticeships?
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Jun 4, 2018
Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: a manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation
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May 10, 2018
Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation
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May 9, 2018
Alternative provision: Seven things we learned from today's education select committee hearing
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May 1, 2018
Ofsted WILL prosecute illegal schools, and 5 other things we learned at education committee
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May 1, 2018
Share a Pencil Day
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Apr 18, 2018
Why sharing is a key part of academic practice
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Apr 15, 2018
Democratising apprenticeship access
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Apr 12, 2018
Skills Minister highlights new provider access law for schools - Sector Response
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Mar 28, 2018
In Yemen, another generation is being lost to conflict
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Mar 27, 2018
Skills Minister highlights new provider access law for schools
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Anne Milton
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Mar 26, 2018
Schools must publish information on how FE providers can speak to their pupils
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Mar 26, 2018
Topic briefing: students from military service families
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Mar 23, 2018
Forgotten learners: age should never be a barrier to higher education
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Mar 14, 2018
Review shows that OFFA’s approach to evidence has driven change in access
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Mar 12, 2018
Director of Fair Access addresses MPs on remaining challenges in fair access
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Mar 6, 2018
Getting in and getting on: access and participation in the Office for Students
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Mar 5, 2018
Report schools that don't let you talk to pupils, minister tells colleges
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Mar 5, 2018
Celebrating progress in fair access
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Mar 1, 2018
Drop in university applications from deprived pupils is a 'wake-up call', says Scotland's fair access tsar
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Feb 20, 2018
Social mobility must underpin higher education
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Feb 5, 2018
World leaders unite in $2bn drive to tackle 'global learning crisis'
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Feb 2, 2018
UK announces 50 per cent funding boost for schools in the developing world
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Feb 2, 2018
AoC welcomes bid to increase diversity in apprenticeships
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Feb 2, 2018
HESA widening participation 16/17 – visualised
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Feb 2, 2018
Global: Hundreds of millions of children in school but not learning
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Feb 2, 2018
UK raises overseas education aid by 50%
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Feb 2, 2018
Digital skills for the future
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Feb 1, 2018
New DfE ‘5 Cities’ project launched
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Feb 1, 2018
University entry exams highlight 'class divide'
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Jan 29, 2018
Working-class teenagers more likely to apply for university with vocational qualifications
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Jan 29, 2018
Hearts must have courage for the changing of the WP guards
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Jan 22, 2018
Global: Malala and Apple launch partnership to get at least 100,000 underprivileged girls into school
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Jan 22, 2018
Call for universities to fast-track bright pupils into the second year of degree courses
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Jan 18, 2018
Drive to provide equality of opportunity ‘must begin at primary school’
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Jan 18, 2018
Research organisations questioned on apprenticeships and skills training
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Jan 16, 2018
We need realistic evaluations of HE access
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Jan 12, 2018
Ten top tips to make your university accessible to all learners
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Jan 12, 2018
Education Committee to hear from research organisations on quality of apprenticeships and skills training
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Jan 12, 2018
Careers guidance and access for education and training providers
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Jan 5, 2018
The scale of educational inequality in Britain is huge—and growing
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Jan 3, 2018
ASCL comment on high performing schools report
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Dec 21, 2017
Comment on EPI report on access to ‘high performing’ schools
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Dec 21, 2017
Access to high performing schools in England
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Dec 21, 2017
Access to the best secondary schools ‘hasn’t improved since 2010’
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Dec 21, 2017
Access to 'top' schools has become more unequal, finds research
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Dec 21, 2017
Understanding effective approaches to part-time provision
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Dec 19, 2017
Middle class fears ‘eroding support’ for university access drive
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Dec 14, 2017
Scottish access Commissioner response
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Dec 13, 2017
Progress on HE access in Scotland 'not spectacular', says commissioner
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Dec 13, 2017
The two-year degree shows education has become just another commodity | Phil McDuff
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Dec 13, 2017
How can widening participation best be achieved?
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Dec 7, 2017
How one university is warming a cold spot
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Dec 2, 2017
Education for a healthy democracy
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Dec 1, 2017
Access gap to best apprenticeships
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Nov 30, 2017
Access arrangements for GCSE and A Level: 2016 to 2017 academic year
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Nov 30, 2017
Access gap to best apprenticeships
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Nov 30, 2017
Let’s talk about university readiness, not just widening participation
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Nov 23, 2017
Budget 2017: What's in it for schools?
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Nov 22, 2017
Increase share of UK aid to global education
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Nov 21, 2017
Foreign aid bosses slammed by furious MPs for spending taxpayer cash on tablets in African private schools
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Nov 21, 2017
Bigger share of aid budget for education, say MPs
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Nov 21, 2017
Helping the world’s poorest girls go to school is a moral imperative for Britain
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Nov 21, 2017
Foreign Aid: MPs urge to spend on education abroad despite funding shortfall in UK schools
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Nov 21, 2017
Celebrating advancing access
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Nov 20, 2017
Fairer fees for students
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Nov 16, 2017
Call for new university rankings on fair access
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Nov 15, 2017
University-school partnerships driving social mobility
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Nov 14, 2017
Embrace the mixed learning economy model to solve our global education crisis
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Oct 25, 2017
Global: The 350 million people who don’t even exist
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Oct 25, 2017
'Shocking' level of social inequality at Oxbridge revealed
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Oct 21, 2017
Consultation offers ‘a real opportunity to push forward a step change’
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Oct 19, 2017
Setting up the Office for Students: what's new?
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Oct 19, 2017
Funding available to improve access to childcare for the poorest two-year-olds
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Oct 18, 2017
OFFA calls for fundamental changes in widening participation
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Oct 16, 2017
Huge variation in HE access performance across world, OECD data reveals
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Oct 7, 2017
More teenagers in England and Scotland taking degrees
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Sep 18, 2017
Teenage student entry rate hits record high
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Sep 18, 2017
Scotland: Scots teenagers more likely than ever to go to university
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Sep 18, 2017
Nick Clegg: No room for complacency in battle against ‘pernicious’ social immobility
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Sep 14, 2017
How is the demand for part-time higher education affected by changing economic conditions?
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Sep 14, 2017
Director for Fair Access and Participation announced
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Sep 7, 2017
Global: 'Zero progress' on school places in decade, says UN
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Sep 6, 2017
What more can be done to improve outcomes for black British students?
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Sep 5, 2017
Top universities 'incredibly slow' to take more disadvantaged students – report
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Sep 5, 2017
LSE tops social mobility report
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Sep 5, 2017
New Insights on WP: Building students’ self-awareness in untraditional settings
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Sep 4, 2017
New Insights on WP: Extending access and promoting lifelong learning
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Sep 1, 2017
New Insights on WP: The Welsh tradition and contemporary challenge
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Aug 31, 2017
New Insights on WP: Scotland the Brave?
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Aug 30, 2017
New Insights on WP: A behavioural approach
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Aug 29, 2017
Young people who don’t go to university are being let down too
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Aug 29, 2017
New Insights on WP: Evaluation
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Aug 25, 2017
Policy Tracker - what happened in the world of education in August 2017
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Aug 25, 2017
Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 25 August 2017
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Learndirect
Aug 25, 2017
Who gets to access education?
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Aug 24, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl comments on the latest OFFA access agreements
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Aug 23, 2017
Access agreements 2018-19: universities help schools to support disadvantaged students
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Aug 23, 2017
Data-riffic! What does data tell us about UK higher education in 2017?
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Aug 23, 2017
OFFA: university access agreements
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Aug 23, 2017
New Insights on WP: Improving retention
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Aug 23, 2017
Universities UK response to Office for Fair Access annual summary of institutions' access agreements
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Aug 23, 2017
Access agreements 2018-19: universities help schools to support disadvantaged students
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Aug 23, 2017
New Insights on WP: Bristol scholars
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Aug 22, 2017
UCU comment on universities' access agreements
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Aug 22, 2017
Stories of second-chance students: 'Now I don't feel scared at all'
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Aug 22, 2017
Colleges improve the accessibility of HE study
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Aug 21, 2017
New Insights on WP: Good practices in fair access
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Aug 21, 2017
Social mobility and improving access to Britain’s universities | Letters
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Aug 21, 2017
Where next for widening participation and fair access?
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Aug 18, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 18 August 2017
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Aug 18, 2017
New Insights on WP: A more radical approach to contextualised admissions
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Aug 17, 2017
Multiple sclerosis proves no barrier to success
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Aug 17, 2017
Didn’t get the A-level results you wanted? Here’s what you should do
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Aug 17, 2017
New insights on WP: The importance of social capital
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Aug 16, 2017
Lawyer who gave up six-figure salary to become headteacher sends 95% of pupils to top universities
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Aug 16, 2017
New insights on widening participation: foreword by Les Ebdon
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Aug 15, 2017
Just one in five students in the country’s poorest communities will make it to university
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Aug 15, 2017
The new GCSEs cut off life chances for students like my nurse, Aisha | Laura McInerney
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Aug 15, 2017
Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds continue to struggle to reach their full potential - sector response
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Aug 14, 2017
Daily roundup 14 August: Left-handed children, child poverty, SEND inspection
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Aug 14, 2017
Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers
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Aug 14, 2017
Teach First report on access to university
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Aug 14, 2017
Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers
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Aug 14, 2017
Widening access to higher education and part-time learning go hand-in-hand
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Aug 14, 2017
Just one in five students in the country’s poorest communities will make it to university
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Aug 14, 2017
Jo Johnson defends 'fair and equitable' tuition fees and student loans
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Aug 14, 2017
Study highlights wealth gap in university access
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Aug 14, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 11 August 2017
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Aug 11, 2017
Beware the aftershocks of the youthquake – it’s a bit more complicated than that
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
Fewer pupils expecting to go to university, says survey
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 7, 2017
Universities to be stopped from sidelining British students for foreign teens who can pay more
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Aug 6, 2017
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Aug 3, 2017
Diversity drive at top universities is failing, as official figures reveal largest ever gap between state and private school students
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Aug 3, 2017
Transnational education: value to the UK
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Jul 28, 2017
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Jul 27, 2017
The case for intersectionality in TEF
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Jul 25, 2017
Open University under investigation after it emerges that Cuban students are banned from institution
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Jul 25, 2017
The hidden schooling crisis for Gypsy, Roma and Irish traveller pupils
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Jul 25, 2017
Scotland: Rethink free tuition, university head urges
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Jul 25, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017
MillionPlus welcomes HEPI’s The Comprehensive University paper
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Jul 19, 2017
Villiers Park Educational Trust’s social mobility programme celebrates scholars’ success
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Jul 14, 2017
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Jul 13, 2017
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Jul 12, 2017
Social mobility can be much more than just widening HE access
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Jul 12, 2017
I went from care to Cambridge University . Let me show you where the barriers are | Vashti Kashian-Smith
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Jul 12, 2017
£590 per head social mobility GDP boost
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Jul 12, 2017
'Growing uncertainty' over prospects for young people
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Jul 12, 2017
Reform grammar schools or pull their funding, senior MP tells ministers
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Jul 11, 2017
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Jul 5, 2017
Why would we scrap £9,000-a-year tuition fees when we know they work? | Jo Johnson
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Jul 4, 2017
Daily roundup 4 July: Solitary confinement, social mobility, and cadet abuse
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Jun 30, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 30 June 2017
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Jun 30, 2017
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Jun 29, 2017
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Jun 29, 2017
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Jun 29, 2017
Social Mobility Commission - "Time for Change" report
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Jun 28, 2017
Oxbridge 'must do more to recognise potential in poorer applicants', says universities tsar
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Jun 28, 2017
Report shows that government policies over the last 20 years have delivered little progress on social mobility in Britain
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Jun 28, 2017
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Jun 27, 2017
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Jun 27, 2017
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Jun 22, 2017
Under privileged teenagers more likely to give up their university ambitions
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Jun 22, 2017
Less privileged teenagers more likely to give up on university ambitions, study finds
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Jun 22, 2017
OFFA welcomes Social Mobility Employer Index
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Jun 21, 2017
The 15 easiest universities in the UK to get into
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Jun 21, 2017
OFFA publishes new guidance on the evaluation of outreach
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Jun 21, 2017
OFFA publishes new guidance on evaluating outreach
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Jun 21, 2017
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Jun 21, 2017
Global: UN warns 'no progress' on 260 million missing school places
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Jun 21, 2017
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Jun 21, 2017
Undergraduate degrees are not the only pathway through higher education, but awareness of other routes is lacking
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Jun 19, 2017
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Jun 19, 2017
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Jun 12, 2017
British universities slip down world rankings as experts blame pressure to admit more disadvantaged students
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Jun 8, 2017
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Jun 6, 2017
Labour to scrap government's SEN reforms
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Jun 6, 2017
Theresa May’s forgotten pledge: how does the UK get more white working class boys into university?
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Jun 6, 2017
Refugees welcome? How UK and Sweden compare on education for young migrants
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Jun 1, 2017
Political pressure mounts on Ancient universities to recruit more disadvantaged students
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May 31, 2017
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May 26, 2017
Future education - a father's perspective
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May 19, 2017
Teachers urged to sign up for free Advancing Access conference
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May 16, 2017
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May 14, 2017
Advancing Access: Support for teachers will boost access to leading universities
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May 10, 2017
EU: European educators caught short in humanitarian crisis, ESU says
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May 10, 2017
Andrew Denholm: Research illuminates debate on fair university access after finally seeing the light of day
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May 5, 2017
International cooperation will boost productivity growth, says OECD
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May 4, 2017
Call for extra funded places to improve university access
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May 4, 2017
Protect early years funding to keep quality and access for disadvantaged children
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May 3, 2017
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May 2, 2017
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May 2, 2017
MillionPlus Podcast: University of Bedfordshire VC Bill Rammell and SU President Tara Alade
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Apr 25, 2017
Theresa May accused of ignoring students’ fears over university tuition fees
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Apr 21, 2017
Put families who earn less than £33,000 first in the queue, new grammars are to be told as part of Education Secretary's reforms
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Apr 14, 2017
Justine Greening: education at the heart of our plan for Britain
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Apr 13, 2017
How universities can use learning analytics to boost fair access and retention
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Apr 11, 2017
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Apr 11, 2017
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Apr 10, 2017
Why teacher encouragement matters – and how we can help
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Apr 4, 2017
Looking fair and wide on university access
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Mar 27, 2017
If Oxbridge is the only solution, we’re asking the wrong questions
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Mar 27, 2017
Scheme supporting Black Oxbridge applicants expands
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Mar 22, 2017
One in 3 pupils on university access scheme privately educated
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Mar 20, 2017
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Mar 20, 2017
More grammars 'will open up jobs in professions'
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Mar 16, 2017
More teenagers in parts of Wales are applying to Oxbridge
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Mar 15, 2017
Academic freedom is holding back fair access to the professions
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Mar 15, 2017
Somalia: call to ensure more women access higher education
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Mar 10, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl comments on Spring Budget 2017
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Mar 8, 2017
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Mar 8, 2017
I can't imagine a better potential doctor – but she didn't get the marks for medicine | Ranjana Srivastava
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Mar 8, 2017
Singapore: More than exams
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Mar 8, 2017
We must not prejudice disadvantaged students who are privately educated
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Mar 7, 2017
Minorities are missing out on apprenticeships, research shows
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Mar 3, 2017
HE prep course for refugees expands to UEL
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Feb 27, 2017
Poorer A-level pupils to get free tuition to help them get to university
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Feb 25, 2017
Careers advice amendment could give colleges access to schools
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Feb 23, 2017
Week in news: 17 February 2017
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Feb 17, 2017
End adult learner debt for cancelled courses
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Feb 17, 2017
How far is Scotland from meeting its 2021 widening access targets?
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Feb 14, 2017
University’s new principal promises to widen access
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Feb 14, 2017
Blog: new student enrolment data
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Feb 10, 2017
Drop in number of disadvantaged students at universities in Scotland
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Feb 8, 2017
Contextual information alone will not improve social mobility
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Feb 8, 2017
OFFA access agreement guidance – universities must play their part to raise school attainment
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Feb 7, 2017
Could your school be a placement for the Researchers in Schools programme?
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Feb 7, 2017
Help schools boost poor pupils' grades, universities told
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Feb 7, 2017
Let’s have a Blair-Cameron College at Cambridge | Nick Hillman
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Feb 7, 2017
Top universities must do more to accept poor students, higher education tsar warns
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Feb 7, 2017
Middle-class parents drive surge in students given extra time for exams
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Feb 6, 2017
HESA - performance indicators
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Feb 3, 2017
Differential offer rates do not necessarily indicate bias in admissions
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Feb 3, 2017
One in ten new undergraduates from poor background as inequality gap gets wider
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Feb 3, 2017
Fewer students from poor areas going to university, figures show
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Feb 2, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl comments on today’s HESA data
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Feb 2, 2017
OFFA responds to UCAS January deadline data
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Feb 2, 2017
Robert Halfon: BETT 2017 speech
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Feb 1, 2017
Kevin McKenna: Scottish higher education should be for all, not the gilded few
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Jan 29, 2017
Global: the imperative of increasing access to university
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Jan 27, 2017
Ethiopia: partnership offers a lifeline to students with disabilities
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Jan 27, 2017
Tech level qualifications and access to HE – a factsheet
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UVAC
HE
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Technical
Access
Jan 26, 2017
College funding cuts 'causing big holes' in effort to widen access to education
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Herald Scotland
FE
Colleges
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SFC
FTE
Scotland
Jan 25, 2017
'Learner number' suggested to better track children's education
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Herald Scotland
Scotland
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Jan 25, 2017
Universities to drop grades for disadvantaged students in top courses such as medicine and law
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Herald Scotland
Scotland
HE
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Disadvantaged students
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Jan 24, 2017
Compulsory schools sponsorship must not distract from effective widening access efforts
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Wonkhe
HE
Universities
School sponsorship
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Jan 20, 2017
Justine Greening: education at the core of social mobility
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DfE
GOV.UK
Social mobility
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National funding formula
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FE
HE
Colleges
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Jan 19, 2017
Scots school leavers being ‘locked out’ of university
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Scotsman
Scotland
HE
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Jan 6, 2017
Les Ebdon: Government amendments strengthen Higher Education Bill
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OFFA
Higher Education and Research Bill
HE
Universities
Access
Jan 4, 2017
Education policy needs to go back to school
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Times
Scotland
HE
Universities
Access
Jan 4, 2017
Universities ‘to level playing field’
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Times
Scotland
HE
Universities
Disadvantaged students
Social mobility
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Jan 3, 2017
‘Universities Scotland: no entitlement to university places for the middle classes
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Herald Scotland
Universities
HE
Scotland
Universities Scotland
Access
Admissions
Jan 2, 2017
No entitlement to university places for the middle classes
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Herald Scotland
HE
Universities
Scotland
Access
Academic performance
Jan 2, 2017
Scotland: university access drive puts squeeze on the less well-off
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Herald Scotland
Scotland
Access
Universities
HE
Disadvantaged students
Dec 31, 2016
Funding to support teaching in higher education
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HEFCE
HE
Universities
Funding
Access
Student outcomes
Progression
Dec 20, 2016
No 'entitlement' to university for middle class pupils with good grades warns fair access tsar
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Herald Scotland
Universities
HE
Access
Social mobility
Social inequality
Scotland
Dec 17, 2016
Education academic appointed to university fair access post
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Herald Scotland
HE
Universities
Access
Dec 16, 2016
University lowers entry grades for disadvantaged
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BBC
HE
Universities
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Admissions
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Dec 15, 2016
Sir Peter Lampl comments on UCAS’ End of Cycle report
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Sutton Trust
UCAS
Access
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HE
Universities
Dec 15, 2016
OFFA comment on UCAS End of Cycle report
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OFFA
UCAS
Access
Disadvantaged students
HE
Universities
Dec 15, 2016
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2016
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MillionPlus
UCAS
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Social mobility
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Dec 15, 2016
Multiple measures of inequality show there is work still to do in widening access
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Wonkhe
HE
Universities
Access
Social mobility
UCAS
Disadvantaged students
Dec 15, 2016
University to lower entry grades for poor
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BBC
HE
Universities
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Social mobility
Access
UCAS
Dec 15, 2016
Record gap between rich and poor students winning university places
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Independent
HE
Universities
Access
Social mobility
Grants
Dec 14, 2016
Record numbers of 18-year-olds accepted to university in 2016
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Universities UK
HE
Universities
UCAS
Access
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Widening participation
Dec 14, 2016
Fighting the politics of access to higher education
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University World News
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HE
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Racial segregation
Access
USA
Dec 9, 2016
MillionPlus welcomes the National Collaborative Outreach Programme
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MillionPlus
HE
Universities
Funding
Access
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Social mobility
Dec 8, 2016
OFFA publishes new tools to evaluate the impact of financial support
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OFFA
HE
Universities
Access
Funding
Financial
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Grants
Dec 5, 2016
System used to improve access to universities for poorer students 'flawed'
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Herald Scotland
HE
Universities
Access
Disadvantaged students
Scotland
Dec 5, 2016
£54m cost of key university access policy
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Herald Scotland
HE
Universities
Disadvantaged students
Access
Dec 1, 2016
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