Oxford will allow in pupils with three B grades to help young people who have suffered 'grave disadvantage'
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Three B grades enough for Oxford University foundation year
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Scotland: Universities ask how many deprived pupils have right grades
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Rationing access to student loans will hit FE colleges harder than universities
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Augar response: ‘highest earners benefit’ in student loan revamp
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Grade requirements for student loans would be attack on working class learners
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New entry requirements are ‘madness’, universities say
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Clampdown on ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees in major funding overhaul
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Minister: minimum entry rules ‘not definite direction of travel’
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Augar response set to restrict English student numbers
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Minimum entry grades ‘would increase degree access inequality’
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The impact of a minimum entry requirement for access to student finance
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Are current English and maths requirements a barrier to young people entering apprenticeships?
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Employers keep asking for unnecessary maths and English grades from apprentices
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Minimum entry requirements would prevent levelling up
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Assess GCSE entry bar impact on health workforce, ministers urged
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English universities await clarity on impact of GCSE entry bar
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Ministers ‘moving forward’ with English university entry bar
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Ministers to overhaul university funding after long consultation
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UTCs could survive by extending year groups beyond age 18
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It’s true – entry requirements for apprenticeships risks closing doors
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Call to bar universities from admitting students who miss grades
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Focus: Do employers set the bar too high for entry criteria to apprenticeships?
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DfE job includes dealing with higher education access bar
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Minimum entry bar for English HE ‘would level down opportunity’
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Elite universities told to lower entry grades
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  • Jan 14, 2021
Disadvantaged students with lower grades offered chance to study at Cambridge
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University of Surrey to lower entry grades in recognition of Covid disruption
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Covid: University of Surrey lowers entry grades to 'relieve anxiety'
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Birmingham becomes first university to lower 2021 entry requirements
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Birmingham University is first to cut entry grades
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Russell Group universities prepare to lower entry grades after struggle to fill courses
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Half of 18-year-olds get into uni with lower grades
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Half of students get degree place with lower grades
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Half of university places go to 'substandard' students
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Now is an ‘ideal time’ to get a university place, Ucas says
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State schools raise the bar for sixth form
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Split on contextualised uni offers for poorer pupils
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Majority of students think universities should take applicants' backgrounds into account, survey finds
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Russell Group students more likely to back contextual admissions
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Universities 'should take students' backgrounds into account'
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Universities are making lower offers to poor students 'under the radar' to avoid middle class backlash, report says
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A-level English can lead to a variety of careers
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Government to look at IGCSE university entrance 'loophole'
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  • May 15, 2019
DfE ministers at loggerheads over minimum A levels for uni
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Top uni to lower A-level offers for poor pupils by four grades
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Warwick University to lower entry grades for disadvantaged pupils
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700 pupils get into grammar schools without 11-plus
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  • Apr 26, 2019
Scotland: Teaching entry rules relaxed owing to shortages
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  • Apr 18, 2019
Universities should be forced to stick to their entry requirements
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Grammar school parents in revolt over plans to drop entry marks for disadvantaged pupils
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Grammar schools set to prioritise poorer pupils and local children despite hostility from parents and alumni
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  • Apr 5, 2019
Legal bid in Birmingham grammar schools entrance row
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St Andrews University principal: Cap on Scottish places, not lower entry grades for the poor to blame for pupils missing out
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Scotland: Universities to lower grade requirements
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  • Feb 15, 2019
SNP's blatant social engineering undermines Scotland's best universities
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  • Feb 14, 2019
Scotland: Lowering university entry grades for disadvantaged students will unlock their potential, not hit standards
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  • Feb 14, 2019
Scotland’s leading universities to lower entry requirements to increase student diversity
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Top universities lower entry requirements
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  • Feb 14, 2019
Scottish universities to lower grade requirements to boost diversity
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Scotland's ancient universities unveil lower entry grades for poor youngsters
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  • Feb 13, 2019
UK universities accepting more students with low grades
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Uni places for 80% of pupils with DDD grades
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  • Dec 13, 2018
University acceptance rates for students with lower grades on the rise
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  • Dec 13, 2018
More students with lower A-level grades admitted to university, figures show
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  • Dec 13, 2018
With three D grades at A-level, 80% got university places
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Fee-hungry universities lower bar to entry
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Oxford and Cambridge should admit students who have not done A-levels,  Education Secretary says
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  • Dec 6, 2018
The rise of unconditional offers – universities need to be careful
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  • Oct 23, 2018
Third of students who get right grades for Oxbridge do not choose to apply
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  • Oct 17, 2018
University of Birmingham opens door to more Chinese students
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  • Oct 16, 2018
Head warns universities of falling entry standards
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  • Oct 4, 2018
Cambridge to give poorer applicants a head start
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  • Oct 2, 2018
Cambridge University set to give poorer students who fail entry requirements chance to study
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  • Oct 1, 2018
Record number of students through clearing as universities scramble to fill course places
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Drama backstage? Clearing statistics in 2018
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Heads welcome calls for minimum entry requirements to university
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  • Sep 4, 2018
A-level results: should universities lower entry grades for disadvantaged students?
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Below the bar. Why minimum entry standards are a bad idea.
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'Relax A-level grades for some medical students'
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  • May 24, 2018
Oxford and inequalities in British society
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  • May 24, 2018
Scotland: Private pupils classed as deprived for university
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  • May 24, 2018
Teach First rejects DfE call for lower entry standards
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Plans to lower university entry grades for poorer students lack support from pupils
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Classroom assistants targeted to help fill teacher vacancies
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  • Feb 5, 2018
Poorest children risk being 'set up to fail' by university diversity drive, Russell Group leader warns
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  • Jan 30, 2018
Scotland: Pay cuts blamed as Scottish graduates shun teaching jobs
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OFFA welcomes launch of social mobility action plan
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Scots universities told to drop entry grades for poor students
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  • Dec 13, 2017
What do universities look for in a personal statement?
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  • Dec 4, 2017
Teacher apprenticeships: what you need to know
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Scotland: Bar lowered for Scottish teacher trainees
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  • Nov 23, 2017
Call for new university rankings on fair access
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  • Nov 15, 2017
Scotland universities to lower entry requirements for children from poor backgrounds
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  • Nov 13, 2017
Scottish universities to widen access for students from deprived areas
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  • Nov 13, 2017
Scotland: Universities agree to two-tier admissions system
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  • Nov 13, 2017
Poor student admissions to top universities could rise by half if they entry requirements were lowered
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Top universities should drop entry requirements by two grades for poorer students, says new study
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Hundreds more poor students could attend 'top' universities if entry requirements were dropped by two A-level grades
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Rise in top universities setting own entrance exams as they cannot rely on A-levels
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  • Aug 19, 2017
Top universities in clearing free-for-all as they desperately try to fill courses: Institutions lower entry requirements after dip in the number of applications
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Oxford and Cambridge 'need to improve access for disadvantaged students'
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