Universities oppose plan for student cap and loans in England
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Minimum entry requirements could 'entrench disadvantage', say universities
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Universities offer places to disadvantaged children with three grades lower than middle-class students
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Emma Duncan: We’re hurting Oxbridge in the name of equality
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Don’t sideline grammar school pupils, top universities told
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Scotland: Universities ask how many deprived pupils have right grades
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IfS: 1 in 4 poorer pupils could lose out under proposed student loan grade thresholds
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Minimum entry requirements for loans will impact poor and minority students
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52 students will go to Cambridge with BBB A-level grades under university's new Foundation Year scheme
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Cambridge University offers new foundation course
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Disadvantage isn’t just digital
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This government’s latest education innovation? Shutting poorer students out of university
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Better management practices in further education colleges boost attainment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Concerns student loan changes could reduce number of low-income students attending university
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Thousands of uni students walk out in NUS strike: Education system isn't working
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Student loan changes hit lower earners harder than first thought – IFS
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Poorer graduates to be hit even harder by student loan threshold change
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Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules
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Student loan system must be fair to the taxpayer as well as students
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Sweeping changes to student loans to hit tomorrow’s lower-earning graduates
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Warning over impact of university entry reforms on disadvantaged pupils
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ASCL comment on changes to the higher education system
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New entry requirements are ‘madness’, universities say
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Minimum GCSE threshold for student loans will hit poorest hardest, say experts
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Augar loan plan may halt prospect of university for poorer pupils
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Engineering more socio-economically diverse than most other sectors, but barriers remain
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Education bureaucrats don’t value independent thinking
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Record number of UK pupils from poorer backgrounds apply to college
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Disadvantaged students show confidence in applications as they approach exams
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Record number of poorer pupils apply to university
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University applications: Record number of UK students from poorest backgrounds apply
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Disadvantaged students ‘effectively penalised’ for not studying A-levels, research finds
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UK government wants to reduce university places for poorest, says tsar
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ASCL comment on UCAS 2021 end-of-cycle report
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Record number of Black and Asian students accepted at top UK universities
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Poorer students hit university high
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One in five poorer students accepted on to higher education courses in 2021
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Most-ever students from deprived areas enrolled at Scottish universities last year
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From adversity to university: Bringing those affected by homelessness into higher education
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Universities urged to stay open to avoid ‘intellectual and psychological harm’ to students
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The impact of travel poverty on education
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Disabled students ‘could be forced out of education’ by new Universal Credit rules
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FE can show HE how to support disadvantaged adult learners
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The bitter irony of lecturers' strike is their actions hit poorest students
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Disadvantaged young people four times more likely to become socially mobile if they attend university
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Improve student job prospects or lose funding, universities warned
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England’s most prestigious universities failing to boost social mobility, IFS finds
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Universities to get good job targets for poor students
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Universities should set ambitious targets to boost graduates in high-paid jobs
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Russell Group universities ordered to help poorer students get best jobs
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Disadvantaged graduates earn half as much as privileged peers in first job
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David Laws and Natasha Porter: Poorer students lose out when jobs fairs are virtual
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Should the West recruit more students from Global South?
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Ireland: Dublin City University provides free sanitary products for students
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UK and US college leaders debate the digital divide
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Reduction in choice ‘would hit disadvantaged students hardest’
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Disadvantaged students could be worst hit by reduction in university courses
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ASCL responds to UCAS statistics on increase in disadvantaged students aiming high with university choices
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Jump in teens from poor families applying for Oxbridge and medicine – but warning of ‘squeeze’ on uni places
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Record number of disadvantaged students in UK apply for most selective courses
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Family support kept disadvantaged students going during the pandemic
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It’s time to rethink how we support the most disadvantaged to make the jump from school to work
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Scotland: New centres open to help disadvantaged into university
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Tony Blair: Cut university tuition fees for the poorest students
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Top universities fall short on admitting disadvantaged students
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  • Sep 17, 2021
Poor students 'risk getting less in-person learning'
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Poorer and BAME students feel left behind during pandemic, says new BPS survey
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Erasmus+ replacement Turing Scheme leaves poorer students 'losing out', colleges warn
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Cambridge tutors to help disadvantaged A-level students
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‘I’m lost’: poorer pupils lose university places after A-level grade surge
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The removal of BTEC qualifications will 'massively impact disadvantaged students' Government is warned
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Scottish exams 2021: Lowest proportion of Scotland's poorest students at university for five years
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Universities will give poorer pupils priority
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Let’s seize this opportunity to break down barriers faced by disadvantaged students
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  • Jul 15, 2021
Poorest students' bursaries fallen by £1000 claims Labour
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Access to university: More students getting full credit
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The new ‘poor’: Cambridge will hand out bursaries to students from households earning £62,000
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Two in five disadvantaged pupils believe they will receive unfair grades - poll
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Apprenticeships: Reforms 'harm disadvantaged students'
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Ireland: Student loans discourage poorer people from entering higher education, says minister
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Scottish universities demand clarity on return, as gap between richest and poorest children in HE widens
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DfE reforms to BTECs and other level 3 quals will hit disadvantaged students hardest, sector warns
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Our obsession with Oxbridge means we're missing out on lots of young talent
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Cambridge college to offer free places for poorer students
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Cambridge will offer £50,000 bursaries to poorest students
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Cambridge college launches UK’s first full scholarship to rival top US universities
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Proportion of black and minority ethnic students at Cambridge at record high
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Cambridge takes record numbers of ethnic minority and state pupils
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Russell Group response to Sutton Trust report on measuring disadvantage
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Mary Beard to fund classics students from under-represented groups
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Commonly used markers of disadvantage ‘not effective’ at identifying low-income students
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Mary Beard’s retirement gift to diversify ‘very white’ Classics
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Half of students rated as disadvantaged not from low-income background
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Mary Beard's retirement present to fund students
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Drive for more student diversity paying off, says Oxford University
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Free meals in further education funded institutions: guide for the 2020 to 2021 academic year
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Oxbridge should not discriminate against private school pupils because they get more firsts, head says
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University access ‘protected by wealth’ for richest globally
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Pay gap: Disadvantaged girls choose low-earning courses
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The impact of course choice at 16: what research says
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Female Afghan student given chance to study for fully-funded masters degree at Oxford
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Building on success: a new focus for Uni Connect
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Least advantaged students gain a lot from going to university – compared to what they would earn if they didn't
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No detriment seems to have helped disadvantaged students attain their potential
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Disadvantaged students and graduates need even more help in a pandemic
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Peter Scott: Designing an English higher education Social Mobility Index
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Free data: The mobile operators supporting students
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Telecoms firms extend free data offer to FE students
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Why we can’t ignore the 16-19 attainment gap
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EPI's disadvantage gap study reveals poorer 16-19 year olds behind their peers - AoC responds
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Poorer students ‘three A-level grades behind better-off peers’
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Stark attainment gap in 16-19 education revealed
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The “disadvantage gap”: Poorer sixth-form students behind by three A-level grades
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Low-income students more likely to be missing out on extra-curricular activities
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New £4.8m collaboration with JPMorgan Chase to improve access to employability opportunities
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The huge shift in university applications: in numbers
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Digital poverty: 49,000 laptops delivered to colleges
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Modern universities crucial to Scotland’s success
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White students who are left behind: the importance of place
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‘Left-behind’ white working class shun university places
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University funding to attract poorer students may fall
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England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries
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  • Jan 20, 2021
Government action called for to lift HE students out of digital poverty
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V-cs voice ‘significant concern’ on regulator’s ‘quality’ metrics
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'Digital poverty' could lead to lost generation of university students, vice-chancellors say
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Cambridge launches foundation year for disadvantaged
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Cambridge University to offer free foundation year for disadvantaged pupils
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Disadvantaged students with lower grades offered chance to study at Cambridge
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Cambridge launches foundation year for students with BBB grades
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Cambridge University to admit students with BBB grades in new diversity drive
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UCAS analysis shows potential for step change in equality by 2030
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The Uggla Family Scholarship Programme
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2021 exam plans welcome - but don't forget less privileged pupils
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Vodafone extends free SIM card scheme to FE colleges
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Financial literacy: economy class
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Universities may face sanctions if they fail most disadvantaged
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  • Nov 17, 2020
100,000 college students still without suitable device for learning
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Home learning: Up to 100,000 students missing out because they don’t have suitable device
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Digital poverty: Up to 100,000 learners without devices
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Widening participation in HE: why it’s important to focus on ‘first generation’ students
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The Sutton Trust responds to new Office for Students analysis
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Disadvantaged students fall behind on access to top universities
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  • Nov 3, 2020
New schools offer cure for medical student ‘elitism’
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  • Oct 10, 2020
Poorest students will be hit hardest if universities move all teaching online, ministers warned
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AoC: Coronavirus support funding should be extended
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More students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK are set to start degrees this autumn
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ASCL welcomes increase in disadvantaged students going to university
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Record rise in disadvantaged starting university
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Give priority to poorer students if courses are full, minister tells unis
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  • Aug 21, 2020
Universities asked to prioritise disadvantaged students following U-turn on A Level grades
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A level results: Government asks universities to prioritise disadvantaged students
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Government tells universities to 'prioritise disadvantaged pupils' amid A-level grade chaos
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Middle-class children may be forced to take gap year
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Stormzy gives £500,000 to fund scholarships for disadvantaged students
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Colleges call for a GCSE retake ‘single lock’ to support some of the most disadvantaged students in the country
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Students from disadvantaged backgrounds more likely than ever to be accepted into university on results day
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Record numbers of 18-year-olds and applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds accepted into university
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A-level results: Universities promise extra help for poorer students
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Redirecting the disadvantaged into FE will further stunt UK social mobility
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Imperial to help tackle Further Maths attainment gap
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College group calls for £250K in donations for laptops
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Lockdown hits vocational education hardest, widening inequalities
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£96m for disadvantaged students catch-up fund - AoC responds
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  • Jul 20, 2020
Opportunity Areas programme to support young people hit hardest by pandemic
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16 to 19 funding: free meals in further education funded institutions for 2019 to 2020
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Funding for college summer food support announced
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DfE to fund summer meals for vulnerable college students – but at a lower rate than schools
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Supporting disadvantaged students through higher education outreach
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Pandemic having no impact ‘so far’ on widening access
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No one should be left behind in the Summer Economic Update
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In the news 3 July 2020
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If overseas students stay away, universities can enrol more disadvantaged people | Anna Mountford-Zimdars
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Universities are taking advantage of teens by charging mega bucks for Mickey Mouse courses
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Less wealthy students lured by university courses with no prospects
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Universities Minister calls for true social mobility
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Minister: students ‘taken advantage of’ on ‘dumbed down’ degrees
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UCU response to universities minister's speech on social mobility
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Disadvantaged students could lose out under latest exam guidance
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Poorer students who miss out on University of Cambridge place given second chance
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British undergraduates at Oxbridge fall amid concern they are being “squeezed out” by foreign students
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Wealth gap at Scotland's universities widens with little progress in closing gulf in school attainment
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Ireland: Cost of transition year may be putting off disadvantaged students
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Universities may have to shut door on elite to hit access targets
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UCU response to MPs' social mobility report
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Oxford and Cambridge universities not doing enough to recruit poorer students, most Britons believe
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The universities where less than five per cent of places go to working-class white students
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Universities failing poor white pupils
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SNP's blatant social engineering undermines Scotland's best universities
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Scotland: Lowering university entry grades for disadvantaged students will unlock their potential, not hit standards
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Fewer than 5% of poor white students in 50% of universities
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Oxford and Cambridge have fewer than 3% poor white students, study finds
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Half of universities in England have fewer than 5% poor white students
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Half of universities have fewer than 5% poor white students
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Scotland's ancient universities unveil lower entry grades for poor youngsters
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EU study opportunities for disadvantaged young people at risk, warn Lords
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Leading UK universities going backwards on state school access
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Stopping student loans for those with low grades alienates students who need it the most
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Widening participation in a demographic dip
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Russell Group university outreach programmes flounder as half admit fewer state school students than previous year
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Scotland: Glasgow's landmark ‘town and gown’ deal to tackle poverty
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Aid apprenticeships offer gap years to poorer young people
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Disadvantage gap at top universities widens
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Universities’ intake of disadvantaged students falls
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Gap between rich and poor students at top universities widens for first time in decade
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Scotland: More students from deprived areas completing college courses
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Degree apprenticeships: disadvantaged students have to travel 12 times further than those in affluent areas
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Poor locked out of degree apprenticeships
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Regulator warns against unconditional offer ‘pressure selling’
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We still make a meal of university and class | Libby Purves
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Cutting tuition fees won’t help poorer students – reduce interest rates instead | David Blunkett
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Oxford president demands octopus is taken off college menu
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Oxford college bans octopus from menu in bid to make disadvantaged students feel more 'comfortable'
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Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time
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Scotland: Universities accept record number of students from deprived areas
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School for poorest pupils gets 37 Oxbridge offers
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Oxford and Cambridge must launch new colleges for disadvantaged young people | Andrew Adonis
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Tuition fees cut would hurt poor, prime minister told
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The debate around postgraduate funding
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Committee Chair comments on Government response to report on apprenticeships
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'Society has a duty to help poor students': university leaders on tuition fees
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Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’
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What did I learn at private school? They should be abolished
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UK universities must recruit more white working class students or face the punishment, education secretary warns
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How to fix Oxbridge’s biased admissions system | Letters
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How primary schools are the key to fixing Oxbridge inequality
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Cutting tuition fees could hurt poorer students, claims social mobility tsar
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Social mobility tsar warns cuts to tuition fees may not help poorest students
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8 schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools
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Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'
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Eight of Britain's most elite schools sent 1,310 students to Oxbridge in three years, while 2,894 schools combined only sent 1,220
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Eton and Westminster among eight schools dominating Oxbridge
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Eight schools send more to Oxbridge than 2,800 rivals
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Elite schools send more students to Oxbridge than 2,900 schools combined
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Eight schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than three quarters of the rest of UK schools, report finds
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Scotland: Aberdeen University lowers ‘poor student’ target
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Scotland: University to double number of students recruited from most deprived areas
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New Reform report on student access
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Poorer pupils' access to elite universities slows
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Poorer UK students ‘study harder’ than richer classmates
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'Opportunities Through Apprenticeships' project is launched
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'Opportunities Through Apprenticeships' project is launched to boost access to apprenticeships in disadvantaged areas
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DfE urged to launch independent review into Careers and Enterprise Company
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University 'not for people like us'
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Slashing uni tuition fees would ‘hit the poorest student hardest’ and benefit those from mid high-income families
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Tuition fee cut ‘will hurt poor students’
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Students from poor backgrounds hardest hit by fees shakes-up - Universities UK
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Rise in disadvantaged students on Glasgow University medical degrees
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We can’t let poorer pupils be frightened off higher education | Claire Hynes
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It’s clear: the Tories still don’t think poor people need an education | Zoe Williams
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The Education Select Committee on value for money in higher education: our response
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Second parliamentary committee calls for means-tested student grants to be reinstated
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Universities blasted by MPs for not giving enough value for money or helping poor students
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Universities must focus on value for money and supporting disadvantaged students - sector response
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£860 million to widen access to university and further education colleges for 2018/19 - sector response
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Universities ‘not providing value for money’, MPs’ report says
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University tuition fees 'could be cut to £6,500' after government review
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‘GoCompare’ style app will level playing field for poorer students, minister says
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Admissions staff told to focus on duration of deprivation
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Scotland: Poorer students face highest levels of debt
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More students from deprived areas accepted to Edinburgh University
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Scotland: Edinburgh gets one in ten students from poor homes
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Scotland: Poorest university students saddled with largest debts
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Oxbridge failing disadvantaged students, critics claim
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Andrew Otty: Colleges inspire me every day
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Both Government and the IFA should make degree apprenticeships a strategic priority
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Education secretary demands action on low number of 'white British disadvantaged boys' going to university
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Call to scrap tuition fees for the poor
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Oxford 'spends £108,000' to recruit each extra low-income student
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OfS access consultation
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Top universities to face pressure over admissions
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Universities must give more top degrees to black students, under new proposals by regulator
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Tough targets on poor students
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British universities could be closed unless they work harder to recruit more poor students
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  • Sep 6, 2018
‘Flawed policy’ excludes Shetland’s poorest
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Poorest students in Wales to get less financial support and debts to rise, study says
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  • Aug 24, 2018
The rent challenge at the heart of the Augar review
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  • Aug 23, 2018
Black student is raising money for university: 'Someone like me, I'm not supposed to be in Oxford'
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  • Aug 22, 2018
Labour Party calls for reintroduction of educational maintenance allowance (EMA)
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Some headlines from A-level results day by Mary Curnock Cook
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A-level results: should universities lower entry grades for disadvantaged students?
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Government accused of 'total failure' to widen elite university access
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Creating choices, developing skills and helping communities
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Scottish Government drive to help deprived students ‘flawed’
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The poorest students will be worse off under Wales’ new student loans package
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Call for cap on Scottish university places to be lifted
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"Horizon shift" called for in access regulation
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Scotland: More university places for students in poorest areas
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Universities chief calls for ministers to bring back maintenance grants amid diversity criticism
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University chief wants to bring back maintenance grants
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Restore maintenance grants for poorest students to boost diversity on campus, university boss says
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Segregation on the rise in post-16 education
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Colleges vital to closing attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers
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Oxbridge bursaries failing to attract poorer students
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In the news 12 July 2018
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Contextualised admissions report
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Universities told to consider ‘context’ of student grades
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Colleges urged to set ambitious targets for access to HE
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Give more places to disadvantaged students, watchdog urges universities
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Alastair Sim: Getting poorer applicants to university isn’t easy but we are trying hard
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University entry 'should be background, not just exams'
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Universities forced to lower grades for poor students complain they will plummet down league tables 
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Universities told to lower offers for poor
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St Andrews University reaches £100m fundraising target
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Scotland: University’s £100m for poor students
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Proportion of pupils going to university hits new high
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Scotland: University access targets squeeze out top students
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Scotland: Ministers ignore advice to pay students £8k living wage
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MillionPlus comment on the Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s Treating Students Fairly report
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A manifesto for access
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Manifesto idea #33: Harry Anderson
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It’s time for real action on local outreach
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Opportunity is more than a place at Oxford
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Manifesto idea #30: Sonia Sodha
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Manifesto idea #21: Paul Murray and Chere Kempt
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Disadvantaged students with lower grades perform just as well in medical degrees
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Oxford sorry after tweet says Lammy is bitter
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Oxford and inequalities in British society
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Manifesto idea #17: Conor Ryan
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Geography finds its place among elite
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Regional gulf in university entrants revealed
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North East students far outnumbered in many degree subjects
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Northeast left behind in race for medical degrees
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  • May 22, 2018
The North-South doctor divide: Six times as many Londoners study medicine as those from the North East
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Manifesto idea #11: Summer Dolan
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Manifesto idea #10: Graeme Atherton
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Scotland: Brexit ‘will help disadvantaged Scots get to university’
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Manifesto idea #4: Professor Anna Vignoles
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Scotland: Universities issue warning over low applications from disadvantaged students
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Manifesto idea #1: Professor Tim Quine
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Call for new Oxbridge colleges for disadvantaged students
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Founding new Oxbridge colleges 'could help disadvantaged sixth-formers'
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  • May 10, 2018
Oxford and Cambridge universities should set up new colleges to boost number of disadvantaged students, report suggests
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  • May 10, 2018
Oxbridge urged to expand by creating new colleges for the poorest students
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UCU comment on HEPI Brightside report on widening access to higher education
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  • May 9, 2018
Labour MP skewered by Martin Lewis during heated tuition fees debate on BBC Question Time
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Former education secretary Justine Greening warns cheaper degree plans could stifle social mobility
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Education Secretary welcomes record proportion of university entrants from state schools
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Metro mayors commit to growing BAME apprenticeships
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Record number of poor students enter top universities, figures show
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Scotland: Barriers facing poorer students at university are likened to racism
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Tuition fees cut is back on the table
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The “Thatcher v miners” Durham party shows how tough university is for poor students
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Public spending watchdog likens English universities to mis-selling
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University students failed by rip-off fees, says watchdog
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Universities 'mis-selling' scandal as some graduates are left with lower earning capacity than school leavers
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The Guardian view on universities and the market: winner takes all | Editorial
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Scottish universities’ plea to protect £700m grant
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Poorer young people are less likely to start the best apprenticeships
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Twice as many poor students attend universities since fees were brought in
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Scotland: Poorer students lose out in funding muddle
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Unless we get clarity on Erasmus, students will miss out on study abroad | Vivienne Stern
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It’s not fair to make profits out of loans to poorer students | Letters
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The 2012 tuition fee reforms made the poorest graduates £1,500 better off, but reforms since have more than wiped out this gain
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Student debt rising to more than £50,000, says IFS
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Three-quarters of students will 'never pay off their loans': Debts are highest in the developed world with average figure now over £50,000
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Poorest students will finish university with £57,000 debt, says IFS
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Poorest students leave university with the most debt thanks to the Tories, says report
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Almost eight in ten graduates will never pay back their full student loan, report finds
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Nicola Sturgeon underminded by her own poverty tsar over university inequality
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Scrap extra fees for international students and use foreign aid budget to bring them to UK, professor urges
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Oxford and Cambridge 'need to improve access for disadvantaged students'
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Glasgow University leads erosion of middle class monopoly on professions
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University drop-out rate for students from poorer homes at highest level in five years
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Social Mobility Commission - "Time for Change" report
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An analysis of 2 decades of efforts to improve social mobility
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Progress on social mobility too slow, commission report warns
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Scotland: Give free EU student places to Scots, says Aberdeen University chief
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Top 50 UK employers for social mobility
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Disadvantaged students face a "jungle" when applying to university
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Scotland: Universities told to simplify access for poorer students
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Employers must judge potential over polish
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Moving on up? What the Social Mobility Barometer means for UK higher education
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  • Jun 19, 2017
Colleges, employers and boroughs take action to tackle London’s Skills Crisis
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  • Jun 19, 2017
Universities face looming strikes as market revolution bites
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  • Jun 18, 2017
In the news: 16 June 2017
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  • Jun 16, 2017
UCU response to 'depressing' Social Mobility Commission poll
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  • Jun 16, 2017
Social mobility barometer exposes pessimism among young people and stark geographical divide
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  • Jun 15, 2017
Poll: half of Brits believe background determines success
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  • Jun 15, 2017
Young deeply pessimistic about social mobility, survey says
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  • Jun 15, 2017
Young people feel social mobility is getting worse but think education will improve
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  • Jun 15, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s Social Mobility Barometer
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  • Jun 15, 2017
POLAR opposites – LEO and the class effect on graduate earnings
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  • Jun 14, 2017
Labour's young voter surge was about issues, not just Jeremy Corbyn
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  • Jun 14, 2017
Steve Hewlett scholarships to support students from low-income families
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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
US oil firm Halliburton branded ‘obscene’ over unpaid UK internships
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  • Jun 7, 2017
Fear of debt really is deterring the poorest from university
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  • Jun 7, 2017
Scrapping the education maintenance allowance was a mistake
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  • Jun 7, 2017
Collective data power
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  • Jun 7, 2017
What each party manifesto means for student voters
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  • Jun 7, 2017
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  • Jun 6, 2017
Poorer students aren’t applying to university because of fears of high debts
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  • Jun 6, 2017
Tuition fees in the news: student participation and disadvantage
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  • Jun 1, 2017
Student loans deter poorer students from university
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  • Jun 1, 2017
Higher tuition fee debt 'deters poorer students'
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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
Universities are wrong to lower entry requirements for disadvantaged students, say undergraduates
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  • May 29, 2017
Conservatives have been an 'unmitigated disaster' for education, says Sally Hunt
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  • May 27, 2017
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  • May 26, 2017
Significant increase in number of 16-18 year-olds not in work or school
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  • May 25, 2017
Labour’s tuition fees pledge
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  • May 22, 2017
‘Isolated’ poorer students more likely to drop out, study shows
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  • May 21, 2017
Election 2017: what the manifestos say on higher education
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  • May 19, 2017
Don't follow Zuckerberg, research warns – university dropouts don't usually succeed
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  • May 17, 2017
Labour manifesto pledges £25bn package for education
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  • May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: What does it say about further education?
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  • May 16, 2017
General election 2017: tuition fees under the spotlight
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  • May 15, 2017
What will replace the European Social Fund?
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  • May 15, 2017
Reality Check: What's been the impact of university tuition fees? (video)
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  • May 11, 2017
Postgraduate master’s loans: equality analysis
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  • May 10, 2017
Corbyn needs to find £10bn a year to make good on tuition fee pledge | Phillip Inman
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  • May 10, 2017
Labour hints that it will pledge to abolish university tuition fees
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  • May 10, 2017
Labour pledges £6bn annual boost to school budgets
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  • May 9, 2017
France: France's new first lady sets her sights on education reform
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  • May 8, 2017
Andrew Denholm: Research illuminates debate on fair university access after finally seeing the light of day
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  • May 5, 2017
Call for extra funded places to improve university access
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  • May 4, 2017
This election will test the laws (and patience) of the wonkiverse
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  • May 2, 2017
NUS to offer free tampons to all female students across the UK
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  • May 2, 2017
Restoring EMA set to be Labour manifesto pledge
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  • Apr 25, 2017
Labour pledges to bring back education maintenance allowance
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  • Apr 25, 2017
Ofsted watch: A bumper crop of ‘good’ grades
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  • Apr 21, 2017
Men and mental health – what does it mean for education and training?
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  • Apr 19, 2017
Rowan Williams on Stefan Collini: against the market in universities
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  • Apr 14, 2017
It’s morally wrong to impose class expectations on university access
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  • Apr 11, 2017
Progress on closing the gap on fair university access
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  • Apr 11, 2017
White British students from low socio-economic status groups
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  • Apr 10, 2017
Private tutors cost £40 an hour – I help disadvantaged students for free
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  • Apr 5, 2017
Leading universities still failing to attract the poorest students
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Apprenticeship reform programme: benefits realisation strategy
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Just eight per cent of Scottish students at Ancient universities are from deprived areas
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  • Mar 30, 2017
'Left Behind Britian': narrowing the social mobility divide
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  • Mar 30, 2017
The Herald launches its prestigious annual higher education awards
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Does higher education have a retention problem?
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  • Mar 29, 2017
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  • Mar 27, 2017
Widening access now has a business and social imperative
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  • Mar 27, 2017
Employers should join universities in reaching out to disadvantaged communities
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  • Mar 14, 2017
Cherry picking ministers threaten the careers strategy
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Scottish universities record worst drop-out rates in UK
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  • Mar 10, 2017
OFFA comment on HESA non-continuation performance indicators
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  • Mar 9, 2017
Taking a fresh look at retention
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  • Mar 8, 2017
International Women’s Day: we cannot take progress for granted
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  • Mar 8, 2017
More school leavers now in further or higher education
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  • Mar 7, 2017
To increase social mobility, invest in adult education
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Oxford University can't save deprived white kids – the problems begin much earlier
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  • Mar 3, 2017
Bristol University gives a third of scholarships for 'disadvantaged' teens to private school pupils
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  • Mar 2, 2017
Oxford University launches summer school aimed at white working-class British boys
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  • Mar 1, 2017
University applications poverty link
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  • Mar 1, 2017
Johnson revs up plans for fast-track degrees
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  • Feb 27, 2017
Russell Group university to offer free tuition for disadvantaged students in bid to boost diversity
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Jo Johnson: Higher Education and Research Bill
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  • Feb 24, 2017
£14,000 tuition fees plan for two-year degree courses
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Apprentices from less deprived areas than other FE students, research finds
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Too few 18-year-olds? That's no reason to start shutting universities
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  • Feb 20, 2017
New initiative to boost disadvantaged groups in work
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  • Feb 20, 2017
Teenagers up to four times less likely to apply to university depending on where they live
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  • Feb 17, 2017
UK's most disadvantaged teenagers four times less likely to apply for university than better off peers
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  • Feb 17, 2017
Apprentices lack support, says Labour
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  • Feb 17, 2017
University’s new principal promises to widen access
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  • Feb 14, 2017
Drop in number of disadvantaged students at universities in Scotland
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  • Feb 8, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 3 February 2017
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  • Feb 7, 2017
OFFA access agreement guidance – universities must play their part to raise school attainment
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  • Feb 7, 2017
If we are serious about improving social mobility, universities must lend their expertise to secondary schools 
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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
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
Decline in young students from disadvantaged backgrounds at Scottish universities
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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
Fall in proportion of young university entrants from poorest areas revealed
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  • Feb 2, 2017
OFFA responds to UCAS January deadline data
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  • Feb 2, 2017
MillionPlus responds to UCAS January deadline statistics report
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  • Feb 2, 2017
The Apprenticeship Levy should help people from all walks of life
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  • Feb 2, 2017
Improving happiness levels for socially excluded young people
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  • Jan 30, 2017
Kevin McKenna: Scottish higher education should be for all, not the gilded few
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  • Jan 29, 2017
Rich students 4 times as likely to go to uni as those from poor background
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  • Jan 26, 2017
Millennials who chose an apprenticeship over university are just as happy with their lives
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  • Jan 26, 2017
Universities to drop grades for disadvantaged students in top courses such as medicine and law
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  • Jan 24, 2017
Scotland's top universities urged to drop entry rules in key courses for disadvantaged students
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  • Jan 24, 2017
Working class officers to be appointed at Manchester University to represent less well-off students
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  • Jan 18, 2017
Student unions recruit 'working class officers' to bridge working and middle class divide on campus
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  • Jan 17, 2017
Thousands of young people face a “lost opportunity” because they can’t access top jobs, unless firms take potential employees’ background into account
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  • Jan 17, 2017
Social mobility inquiry finds thousands of talented young people missing out on top jobs
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  • Jan 17, 2017
MPs call for unpaid internships ban
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  • Jan 17, 2017
Check job applicants’ school background, MPs tell employers
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  • Jan 17, 2017
Ban unpaid internships that penalise working-class young, say MPs
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  • Jan 16, 2017
Willie Rennie calls on Nicola Sturgeon to reverse college funding cuts
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  • Jan 12, 2017
Bristol is right to lower entry requirements – elite institutions like Oxbridge should follow its lead
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  • Jan 11, 2017
Enabling traineeships to grow
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  • Jan 6, 2017
Universities ‘to level playing field’
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  • Jan 3, 2017
Scotland: university access drive puts squeeze on the less well-off
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  • Dec 31, 2016
Social mobility promise 'broken' for ethnic minority children
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  • Dec 28, 2016
The gap between rich and poor students going to university has reached record levels
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  • Dec 20, 2016
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 16 December 2016
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  • Dec 16, 2016
Bristol University to offer lower grades to disadvantaged teenagers 
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  • Dec 15, 2016
Bristol University to lower entry grades for disadvantaged students
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  • Dec 15, 2016
University lowers entry grades for disadvantaged
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  • Dec 15, 2016
OFFA comment on UCAS End of Cycle report
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  • Dec 15, 2016
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2016
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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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  • Dec 15, 2016
University to lower entry grades for poor
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  • Dec 15, 2016
What do students want after graduation? And do they actually do it?
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Record numbers of 18 year olds accepted to university this year, UCAS report shows
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Record numbers of 18-year-olds accepted to university in 2016
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Inside the second chance high schools for 21 year-olds
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  • Dec 13, 2016
Students from under-privileged backgrounds 'earn less after graduation'
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  • Dec 12, 2016
UCAS responds to The University and College Union (UCU) Report
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  • Dec 8, 2016
Grade prediction system means the brightest, poorest students can miss out on top university places
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  • Dec 8, 2016
A-level choice 'more important with AS-levels changes'
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  • Dec 8, 2016
Most students' predicted A-levels 'wrong'
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  • Dec 8, 2016
Five out of six A-level grade predictions by teachers are wrong, study shows
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  • Dec 8, 2016
Race equality in FE has got stuck
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  • Dec 7, 2016
System used to improve access to universities for poorer students 'flawed'
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  • Dec 5, 2016
£54m cost of key university access policy
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  • Dec 1, 2016
New principal of Scotland's oldest university targets more students from poor backgrounds
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  • Nov 29, 2016
St Andrews University's new principal targets more students from poor backgrounds
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  • Nov 29, 2016
Affluent schools more likely to improve Ofsted grade, and 3 other key findings from EPI Ofsted report
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  • Nov 22, 2016
School leader development charities rebrand as Ambition School Leadership
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  • Nov 22, 2016
Inconsistency in policy making jeopardises FE reforms, report suggests
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  • Nov 17, 2016
Government’s skills agenda is a case of ‘two steps forward, one step back’
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Research round-up 16 November 2016
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Universities and colleges “a key piece in the social mobility puzzle”
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Social Mobility Commission - State of the Nation 2016
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Independent schools and social mobility: no easy answers
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Nearly half of Britons 'see background as key to success'
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Justine Greening calls for education research to be targeted at schools in disadvantaged areas
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  • Nov 8, 2016
Progress on fair university access 'stalling' as key post remains unfilled
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  • Nov 5, 2016
New School Cuts interactive website shows devastating effects of Government's school funding plans
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  • Nov 4, 2016
Funding cuts 'will hit schools with poorest pupils hardest'
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  • Nov 4, 2016
Free school breakfast clubs boost results, study finds
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  • Nov 4, 2016
EEF trial finds breakfast clubs more effective than infant free school meals
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  • Nov 4, 2016
Three ways to reach out with good advice
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  • Nov 3, 2016