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Capping student numbers a flawed and backward move, university leaders warn
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Student quotas Disadvantage gap University access Widening participation Minimum entry requirements
  • May 9, 2022
Government proposal to cap student numbers going to university would hit social mobility, uni bosses say
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Student loans Student quotas University access Widening participation Disadvantage gap Minimum entry requirements
  • May 9, 2022
Minimum grade requirements to get student loan will ‘entrench’ disadvantaged students
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Minimum entry requirements Disadvantage gap Student loans University access Widening participation
  • May 9, 2022
Universities oppose plan for student cap and loans in England
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Minimum entry requirements University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students Disadvantage gap Student loans
  • May 9, 2022
Minimum entry requirements could 'entrench disadvantage', say universities
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Minimum entry requirements Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation Disadvantage gap Student loans
  • May 9, 2022
Schools and university partnership working: Why evaluation and collaboration is the cornerstone of widening participation
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Widening participation University access Collaboration
  • May 6, 2022
Widening access to HE starts in early childhood
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University access Widening participation
  • May 5, 2022
The HE sector should seize the day on school-university partnerships
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Partnerships University access Widening participation
  • May 3, 2022
Time we tapped collective energy to tackle inequalities in HE
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University access Widening participation Inequality
  • May 3, 2022
Working together on access and participation evaluation
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University access Widening participation
  • Apr 29, 2022
Is it students or universities that need to change?
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University access Widening participation
  • Apr 29, 2022
BTECs offer ‘critical alternative route to HE’
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BTECs University access Vocational education
  • Apr 28, 2022
Cambridge University offers new foundation course
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Cambridge University Foundation course Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation
  • Apr 25, 2022
Social mobility: A university that’s getting it right
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Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Apr 25, 2022
Vocational education: Preventing government from setting up new barriers to access to higher education
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Vocational education University access Widening participation
  • Apr 12, 2022
Helping students to access and succeed at university
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Attainment University access Widening participation
  • Apr 7, 2022
‘Hidden hierarchies’ a barrier to partnerships between universities and schools
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University access Widening participation Attainment
  • Apr 7, 2022
Higher education is a route out of poverty, but a government loan cap would block it
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Student loans University access Widening participation
  • Apr 7, 2022
OfS: ‘hidden hierarchies’ blocking school-university partnerships
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Attainment University access Widening participation
  • Apr 7, 2022
Refugees in higher education – a personal perspective
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Refugees University access Widening participation
  • Apr 6, 2022
Universities must remove the barriers facing Access to HE students
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University access Widening participation Social mobility
  • Apr 4, 2022
Students need to know the secret codes to success at university
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University access Widening participation Student outcomes
  • Apr 4, 2022
Disadvantage isn’t just digital
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Digital poverty Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation
  • Mar 31, 2022
Brief encounters of the evaluation kind
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University access Widening participation
  • Mar 22, 2022
This government’s latest education innovation? Shutting poorer students out of university
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University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students
  • Mar 21, 2022
Why we are failing children of prisoners in higher education
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University admissions University access Widening participation
  • Mar 15, 2022
Will accessibility gains be lost in the “new normal”?
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University access Widening participation Disability Student support
  • Mar 11, 2022
Supporting women becoming engineers
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University access Engineering Gender equity
  • Mar 8, 2022
Play your cards right: Social mobility and higher education
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Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Mar 7, 2022
We must not let fiscal drag put a halt to access
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University access Widening participation
  • Mar 7, 2022
Concerns student loan changes could reduce number of low-income students attending university
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Student loans HE reforms Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation
  • Mar 4, 2022
Student loan proposals in England are cruel and punitive
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Student loans Student finance University access Widening participation
  • Mar 2, 2022
Widening access is working: Why won’t we admit it?
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Widening participation University access
  • Mar 2, 2022
Higher education has not been the great leveller Blair envisaged
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Tertiary education University access Widening participation
  • Mar 1, 2022
Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules
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Disadvantaged students Student loans Loan repayment University access Widening participation
  • Feb 28, 2022
Paul Johnson: Changes to university fees are set to penalise lower-earning graduates
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HE reforms HE funding University access Widening participation
  • Feb 28, 2022
Kicking universities is no way to solve the divide between the academic and the rest
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University access Widening participation HE reforms
  • Feb 27, 2022
Student loan ban will hit dyslexic people hard, says Benjamin Zephaniah
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Dyslexia Student loans Grade threshold GCSEs English Maths University access
  • Feb 26, 2022
Abandoning university admissions reform 'another nail in the coffin' for widening access to working class communities
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University admissions Widening participation University access
  • Feb 24, 2022
GCSE thresholds for eligibility for student loans could transform access and participation
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Grade threshold GCSEs Student loans University access Widening participation
  • Feb 24, 2022
English and maths grade requirements put pressure on schools
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GCSEs English Maths Student loans University access
  • Feb 24, 2022
Augar review: What schools need to know about university shake-up
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Augar review HE reforms University access University admissions
  • Feb 24, 2022
Pupils who fail maths and English GCSEs could be blocked from student loans
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Student loans University access Maths English GCSEs
  • Feb 24, 2022
Warning over impact of university entry reforms on disadvantaged pupils
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HE reforms University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students Grade threshold
  • Feb 24, 2022
Reforms should hit exploitative universities instead of poor students
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HE reforms Disadvantaged students University access Loan repayment Student loans
  • Feb 24, 2022
Student loan ban criticised as it could block access to university for many
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Student loans GCSEs Maths English University access
  • Feb 24, 2022
UK Government risks shutting down access to higher education
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University access Student loans Grade threshold
  • Feb 24, 2022
UUK response to government’s announcement on funding for post-18 education
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Post-18 Student quotas University access Lifelong learning Lifelong loans Lifelong loan entitlement
  • Feb 24, 2022
ASCL comment on changes to the higher education system
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Student loans HE reforms Loan repayment Disadvantaged students University access Lifelong loan entitlement
  • Feb 24, 2022
At last, the university tanker is being turned
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University access GCSEs Maths English
  • Feb 24, 2022
Augar response: ‘highest earners benefit’ in student loan revamp
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Augar review Student finance Student loans Loan repayment Entry requirements University access
  • Feb 24, 2022
Grade requirements for student loans would be attack on working class learners
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Entry requirements Grade threshold University access Disadvantaged students
  • Feb 24, 2022
New entry requirements are ‘madness’, universities say
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University access Entry requirements HE reforms Disadvantaged students
  • Feb 24, 2022
‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan
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Student loans GCSEs Maths English University access Grade threshold
  • Feb 23, 2022
‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan
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Student loans Grade threshold GCSEs Maths English University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Pupils who fail GCSE English and maths ‘may be blocked’ from student loans
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GCSEs Maths English Student loans University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Augar loan threshold lacks imagination says Cambridge academic
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Augar review Loan repayment Student loans GCSEs Maths English University access Grade threshold
  • Feb 23, 2022
Minimum GCSE threshold for student loans will hit poorest hardest, say experts
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GCSEs Grade threshold Maths English Disadvantaged students University access Student loans
  • Feb 23, 2022
No English and maths GCSE, no university student loan, plans say
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GCSEs Maths English University access Student loans Grade threshold
  • Feb 23, 2022
Minister: minimum entry rules ‘not definite direction of travel’
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Entry requirements University access GCSEs Grade threshold Student loans
  • Feb 23, 2022
Pupils who fail maths and English GCSEs ‘will be banned from taking out student loans’
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Student loans University access GCSEs Maths English
  • Feb 23, 2022
Pupils who fail maths and English GCSEs will be banned from taking out student loans
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GCSEs Maths English Student loans University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Augar loan plan may halt prospect of university for poorer pupils
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Augar review Student loans Disadvantaged students University access Maths English GCSEs
  • Feb 23, 2022
No student loan for pupils who fail GCSE maths or English
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GCSEs Maths English Student loans University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
HESA data spring 2022: widening participation performance indicators
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Widening participation University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Pupils who fail Maths and English GCSEs 'won't get student loans' under new plans
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Student loans GCSEs Maths English University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Pupils who fail GCSE maths and English could be banned from getting student loans under new proposals
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GCSEs Maths English Student loans University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Pupils who fail English and maths ‘will be barred from student loans’
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GCSEs Maths English Student loans University access
  • Feb 23, 2022
Fears that minimum grades for student loans in England could narrow access
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GCSEs Maths English University access Student loans
  • Feb 22, 2022
A vocational view on access and participation is needed from the regulator
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University access Widening participation Employability
  • Feb 14, 2022
To address gaps in outcomes we need to interrogate the data
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University access Widening participation Student outcomes Graduate employment
  • Feb 11, 2022
John Blake: No trade-off between access and quality on my watch
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University access Widening participation Graduate outcomes
  • Feb 10, 2022
Disadvantaged students ‘effectively penalised’ for not studying A-levels, research finds
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Disadvantaged students University access Tertiary education
  • Feb 10, 2022
Which countries have the most unequal access to higher education?
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University access
  • Feb 10, 2022
Evaluation supports participation
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University access Widening participation Regulation
  • Feb 9, 2022
Access tsar sets out plans to implement school-university focus
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University access Widening participation Education standards Outreach
  • Feb 8, 2022
John Blake sets out vision for fair access and participation
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University access Widening participation John Blake
  • Feb 8, 2022
No trade off between access and quality on my watch
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John Blake University access Widening participation
  • Feb 8, 2022
Investing in children of the north will pay dividends
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Levelling up Regional inequality Widening participation University access
  • Feb 3, 2022
UK government wants to reduce university places for poorest, says tsar
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Social mobility Disadvantaged students University places University access Widening participation
  • Jan 29, 2022
OfS outcomes proposals could improve links between WP and employability
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Graduate outcomes University access Widening participation Employability
  • Jan 28, 2022
Minimum thresholds – are we really protecting students?
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Thresholds Social mobility Widening participation University access
  • Jan 26, 2022
From adversity to university: Bringing those affected by homelessness into higher education
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University access Widening participation Homelessness Disadvantaged students
  • Jan 17, 2022
Minimum entry grades ‘would increase degree access inequality’
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Entry requirements University access Widening participation Inequality
  • Jan 12, 2022
Did the pandemic hamper widening access and participation in 2021?
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Covid impact University access Widening participation
  • Jan 10, 2022
Resetting the dial on access and participation
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University access Widening participation
  • Dec 9, 2021
The pervasive belief in low aspirations could undermine the Government’s ‘reboot’ of widening the doors to higher education
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University access Widening participation Aspirations
  • Dec 2, 2021
Case studies for a new approach to university access, participation and success
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Case studies University access Widening participation Student success
  • Nov 30, 2021
Should universities be level 3 providers?
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University access Widening participation
  • Nov 30, 2021
Fixing the leaky pipeline of impact evidence in access and participation work
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University access Widening participation
  • Nov 29, 2021
A national university led tutoring service could help to level up education
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Tutoring University access Widening participation
  • Nov 29, 2021
Higher education can learn from the school sector
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University access Widening participation
  • Nov 29, 2021
Are universities the right vehicle for schools improvement?
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School improvement University access Widening participation
  • Nov 29, 2021
Nadhim Zahawi launches bid to get universities to take in more white working-class boys
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White working class University admissions University access Widening participation Nadhim Zahawi
  • Nov 28, 2021
Report shows university staff are force for social good
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Social mobility Widening participation University access
  • Nov 25, 2021
UK universities told to show ambition in graduate job targets
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Graduate outcomes Graduate employment Student support Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
Moving in the right direction: Social mobility and university access
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University access Widening participation Social mobility
  • Nov 24, 2021
The best universities for getting poorer students into high paying jobs are all in London
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Selective universities Graduate outcomes Graduate employment Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
England’s most selective universities worst for social mobility, report finds
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Selective universities Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
Ministers are making new demands on access to and participation in higher education
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University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
Disadvantaged young people four times more likely to become socially mobile if they attend university
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Disadvantaged students Social mobility Widening participation Education outcomes University access
  • Nov 24, 2021
Our response to the new Director for Fair Access and Participation announcement
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John Blake Director for Fair Access and Participation University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
Universities must help poorer pupils before they apply for places
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Outreach University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
Improve student job prospects or lose funding, universities warned
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Widening participation University access Disadvantaged students Graduate outcomes Graduate employment Social mobility
  • Nov 24, 2021
England’s most prestigious universities failing to boost social mobility, IFS finds
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Disadvantaged students Social mobility University access Widening participation Graduate employment Graduate outcomes
  • Nov 24, 2021
Stuck inside of mobility with the access blues again
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University access Widening participation Social mobility
  • Nov 24, 2021
Who is John Blake and why was he chosen to lead a new agenda for access & participation?
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John Blake University access Widening participation Director for Fair Access and Participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
Universities to get good job targets for poor students
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University access Widening participation Graduate outcomes Graduate employment Disadvantaged students
  • Nov 24, 2021
New director to lead ‘reboot’ of HE access
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John Blake University access Widening participation Director for Fair Access and Participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
English access ‘reboot’ brings ‘high-paid jobs’ graduate targets
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John Blake University access Widening participation Director for Fair Access and Participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
IFS report shows selective English universities worst for social mobility
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Selective universities Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Nov 24, 2021
University access fear over BMAT entrance test glitch (again)
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University access Entrance exams
  • Nov 22, 2021
University helps homeless with degree course pledge
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University access Widening participation Homelessness Tertiary education
  • Nov 17, 2021
White working class needs college quotas, says actor Eddie Marsan
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White working class Student quotas University access Widening participation
  • Nov 17, 2021
Preserving the wonder as we widen access
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University access Widening participation
  • Nov 10, 2021
‘Levelling up’ depends on reforming routes into higher education
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Levelling up University access Widening participation
  • Nov 6, 2021
‘Left-behind’ areas missing out on university access and graduate jobs
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University access Widening participation Graduate outcomes
  • Nov 4, 2021
Access, retention, attainment, progression – an integrative literature review
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University access Retention Attainment Progression
  • Nov 1, 2021
University is popular, but the cost of living is a problem
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Student loans Student finance University access Widening participation
  • Nov 1, 2021
Disadvantaged students could be worst hit by reduction in university courses
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Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation Student finances
  • Nov 1, 2021
Assess GCSE entry bar impact on health workforce, ministers urged
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University access Entry requirements
  • Oct 26, 2021
Is winter coming for widening access?
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University access Widening participation
  • Oct 18, 2021
Early 2000s baby boom will soon flood universities, warns former Tory minister
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Baby boom School leavers Student numbers University access
  • Oct 15, 2021
Wealthier students were almost twice as likely to enter HE in 2019-20
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University access Widening participation
  • Oct 15, 2021
Widening participation in higher education: 2021
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Widening participation University access
  • Oct 14, 2021
The picture on widening HE participation gets worse the closer you look
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Widening participation University access Level 4 Level 5 Disadvantaged students
  • Oct 14, 2021
Three ways to help underrepresented groups into higher education
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University access Widening participation
  • Oct 14, 2021
Don’t ‘write people off’ by restricting access, urges UUK chief
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University access
  • Oct 13, 2021
Western: ‘elitist’ ministers want access cut to ‘hold on to power’
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Elitism University access University places
  • Oct 1, 2021
What might a minimum entry threshold for higher education look like?
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Entry requirements University access Widening participation
  • Sep 28, 2021
Labour blasts Tories’ ‘smokescreen’ cut to English student intake
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University access Widening participation
  • Sep 28, 2021
Masking the problem – are all students part of the conversation?
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Disability University access
  • Sep 22, 2021
My access journey to Oxford
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Oxford University University access
  • Sep 21, 2021
'White privilege' a thing of the past? Alarm over fall in white boys going to university
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White privilege University access University admissions
  • Sep 13, 2021
Ministers ‘moving forward’ with English university entry bar
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Entry requirements Student loans University access
  • Sep 9, 2021
Regulatory notice 1: Access and participation plan guidance
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University access Widening participation
  • Sep 9, 2021
Liverpool teens to get support to access top careers in finance and engineering
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University access Widening participation
  • Sep 9, 2021
Expanding our Pathways with the University of Liverpool
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University access Widening participation
  • Sep 9, 2021
What’s the relationship between where you come from, where you go to university and your opportunities for a well-paid graduate job?
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University access Widening participation Graduate outcomes
  • Aug 24, 2021
Tony Blair's own son turns on father as he ferociously tears apart ex-PM for failure
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Tertiary education University access
  • Aug 12, 2021
Do grade inflation and fair access mix?
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University access Widening participation Grade inflation
  • Aug 12, 2021
Tony Blair's university pledge has failed, says his son
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Tertiary education University access
  • Aug 11, 2021
University access fears as application rejection rate jumps
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University admissions University access Scotland
  • Aug 10, 2021
Three things to remember about the applicants of 2021
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University admissions University access Widening participation
  • Aug 10, 2021
Only way you'll get to Oxford is on a bus
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Social mobility Widening participation University access
  • Aug 6, 2021
Harder times ahead for applicants and access?
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University access University applications
  • Jul 26, 2021
Augar: 50 per cent HE target yielding to ‘age of everyone’
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Augar review University access Widening participation
  • Jul 6, 2021
University places squeeze: Wealthier students risk losing out
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Scotland University admissions University access Widening participation
  • Jul 1, 2021
UCU Scotland comment on latest figures on widening access to university
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Scotland University access Widening participation
  • Jun 30, 2021
Access to university: More students getting full credit
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University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students
  • Jun 30, 2021
Scottish universities hit widening access target
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Scotland University access Widening participation
  • Jun 30, 2021
Gendered education policy does more harm to white working-class girls than discussing ‘white privilege’
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University access Widening participation Gender inequality
  • Jun 29, 2021
Government loans have helped widen access to postgraduate study, but rising tuition fees threaten progress
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Postgraduate study University access Widening participation
  • Jun 24, 2021
White working-class students have been let down – just not by a debate over “white privilege”
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White working class White privilege University access Racism
  • Jun 23, 2021
Higher Education on Hold: Access to higher education for young people with insecure or unresolved immigration status
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University access Immigrants
  • Jun 22, 2021
The new ‘poor’: Cambridge will hand out bursaries to students from households earning £62,000
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Cambridge University Bursaries Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation
  • Jun 22, 2021
Cambridge University bursaries will help 'remove barriers'
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University of Cambridge Bursaries University access Widening participation
  • Jun 22, 2021
Set targets for white working-class access, MPs tell regulator
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White working class University access Widening participation
  • Jun 22, 2021
Excellence and access ‘not mutually exclusive’, says Exeter v-c
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University admissions Widening participation University access
  • Jun 16, 2021
Ireland: Student loans discourage poorer people from entering higher education, says minister
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Ireland Student loans Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation
  • Jun 16, 2021
Scottish universities demand clarity on return, as gap between richest and poorest children in HE widens
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Scotland Disadvantaged students University admissions Widening participation University access
  • Jun 15, 2021
What’s the best way to get more disadvantaged students to the most selective universities?
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Disadvantaged students University admissions Selective education Widening participation University access
  • May 31, 2021
Fair access to English higher education in the 21st century – a story in five parts
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University access Widening participation
  • May 13, 2021
Daring outreach during risk adverse times
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Outreach Widening participation University access
  • Apr 22, 2021
Access and collaboration ‘key to ensure community benefit’
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University access Collaboration
  • Apr 20, 2021
DfE job includes dealing with higher education access bar
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University access Entry requirements
  • Apr 16, 2021
Here’s what happened when I read every Access and Participation Plan
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University access Widening participation
  • Apr 9, 2021
University access ‘protected by wealth’ for richest globally
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University access Disadvantaged students
  • Apr 7, 2021
Building on success: a new focus for Uni Connect
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Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation Student support
  • Mar 26, 2021
Evaluation in a time of crisis
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University access Widening participation Student support
  • Mar 26, 2021
Who benefits from higher education study?
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Disadvantaged students Academic performance Social mobility University access Widening participation LEO Graduate outcomes
  • Mar 26, 2021
Evaluation in a time of crisis
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Widening participation University access Tertiary education
  • Mar 24, 2021
Post-qualification admissions and further education: the time is now
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University admissions Post qualification admissions University access
  • Mar 23, 2021
The Fair Access Coalition: 10 requirements for a fair admissions process
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Fair access University admissions Widening participation University access
  • Mar 22, 2021
Quality matters: The census and HESA widening participation data
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Widening participation University access Census
  • Mar 16, 2021
The new narrative in data on access and participation
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University access Widening participation
  • Mar 13, 2021
Gap in participation at higher-tariff universities narrows
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Widening participation University access
  • Mar 12, 2021
Evaluation of access and participation plan reforms
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University access Widening participation
  • Mar 11, 2021
No detriment seems to have helped disadvantaged students attain their potential
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Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation BAME Ethnic minorities Attainment gap
  • Mar 11, 2021
Checking privilege in the graduate labour market – can universities make a difference?
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Employability Graduate outcomes University access Widening participation
  • Mar 8, 2021
What a criminal record can mean for access to higher education
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University access Criminal record
  • Feb 23, 2021
Chancellor awards scholarship to four students to help enhance opportunities
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Scholarships University access Widening participation
  • Feb 16, 2021
HESA Spring: Widening Participation UKPI
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Widening participation University access
  • Feb 12, 2021
Two in five top universities see drop in students from state schools
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University admissions Private education University access Widening participation State schools
  • Feb 11, 2021
Rethinking higher education: Case studies for the 21st Century
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Case studies Tertiary education University access
  • Feb 11, 2021
Scotland's universities hit target for widening access
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Coronavirus Scotland University access Widening participation
  • Jan 27, 2021
White teens in former industrial towns ‘among least likely to go to university’
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Working class University access Widening participation Tertiary education
  • Jan 26, 2021
Poor white teenagers are least likely group to go to university, watchdog warns
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University access Widening participation Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jan 26, 2021
Poor white youngsters in 'left behind' towns much more likely to miss out on university
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Disadvantaged pupils University access Widening participation
  • Jan 26, 2021
White students who are left behind: the importance of place
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Widening participation University access Disadvantaged students Working class
  • Jan 26, 2021
Poor white teens in 'left behind' towns not going to uni
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Working class Disadvantaged University access Widening participation Attainment
  • Jan 26, 2021
‘Left-behind’ white working class shun university places
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University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students Working class
  • Jan 26, 2021
The Disabled Students’ Commission: Making a difference for disabled students in higher education
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Disability Inclusion University access Widening participation
  • Jan 21, 2021
Disabled Students’ Commission publishes annual report
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Disability University access Widening participation
  • Jan 21, 2021
University funding to attract poorer students may fall
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University funding Disadvantaged students Student recruitment University access Widening participation
  • Jan 21, 2021
Strathclyde University pledges to help Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities
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Scotland University access Widening participation
  • Jan 20, 2021
England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries
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Selective education Tertiary education University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students
  • Jan 20, 2021
Barber: capping student numbers would stifle social mobility
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Student quotas Social mobility University access Widening participation
  • Jan 20, 2021
Bolder approach needed to make university admissions fairer
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University admissions University access Widening participation
  • Jan 14, 2021
Rethinking fair admissions
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University admissions University access Widening participation
  • Jan 14, 2021
Selective universities are making progress on fairly assessing merit in admissions
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University admissions University access Widening participation
  • Jan 14, 2021
Elite universities told to lower entry grades
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University admissions Entry requirements University access Widening participation
  • Jan 14, 2021
UCAS analysis shows potential for step change in equality by 2030
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University admissions Disadvantaged students Racial inequality University access Widening participation
  • Dec 16, 2020
Uni Connect consultation: routes to success
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Student submissions for the monitoring of 2019-20 access and participation plans
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Places and spaces must be accessible by January
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'I didn't feel I fitted in': why Gypsies, Roma and Travellers don't go to university
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Letter to accountable officers: Monitoring of access and participation plans 2019-20
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England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries
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  • Nov 20, 2020
Widening access across the world
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Degrees of mobility: access, participation, and the ‘levelling up’ agenda
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  • Nov 7, 2020
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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  • Nov 3, 2020
Response to OfS analysis showing more students from the most underrepresented communities at university
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  • Nov 3, 2020
Everyone needs a home. So why do we deny them to estranged students?
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  • Nov 3, 2020
Disadvantaged students fall behind on access to top universities
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Do we misunderstand being marginalised?
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We must learn from the experiences of disabled students
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  • Oct 7, 2020
Access to higher education before, during and after the pandemic
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  • Sep 30, 2020
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  • Sep 23, 2020
September will be better than April – but not for everyone
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Who gets squeezed out when places are restricted?
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  • Aug 28, 2020
Exams and lockdown: how the pandemic threatens social mobility at university
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  • Aug 12, 2020
Poll shows school, college and university leaders want to reform university admissions
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  • Aug 11, 2020
What if the problem is A levels and Highers, not 2020?
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  • Aug 11, 2020
Closing off university access is the essence of levelling down
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True social mobility – false dichotomies in the new post-compulsory policy
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We need to talk – dialogue in widening access
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  • Jul 17, 2020
A strange speech to widening participation practitioners
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  • Jul 5, 2020
Could the response to Covid-19 help build more inclusive learning environments?
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Universities Minister calls for true social mobility
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  • Jul 1, 2020
Students misled by courses that do not improve life chances
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Universities 'must help' pupils hit hardest by pandemic
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Student number controls harm access – in ways you might not realise
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  • Jun 23, 2020
Four pillars of good practice that will help WP teams recover from Covid-19
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Covid-19 and EdTech: a chance for HE to rethink quality of provision and equality of access
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A call to action on widening participation in the era of Covid-19
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  • Jun 8, 2020
Progress on Scottish widening access targets may have stalled, warns Commissioner
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  • Jun 8, 2020
Sticking plasters for the hardest hit will be in short supply in a pandemic
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Why can’t Million Plus have any additional student numbers?
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New digital platform will help 6,000 disadvantaged young people navigate university applications
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Transforming access and participation demands a national strategy
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Universities voice concern over access targets for disadvantaged students
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  • May 27, 2020
Top universities would need to recruit deprived students irrespective of grades to meet targets, report finds
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Union warns that disadvantaged students could miss out under plans for summer exams
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Access to higher education: what the OfS revealed today
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Widening participation matters too much for Covid-19 to shut it down
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Best laid plans? Ambitions for student access and participation in the new reality
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Updates to information supporting access and participation plans
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Regulatory notice 1: Access and participation plan guidance
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Navigating the aspiration trap: white working-class students and widening access to higher education
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  • Apr 21, 2020
Digital can’t replace face to face when it comes to widening participation
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More students from deprived neighbourhoods enter HE
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We must not abandon widening participation this year
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A golden thread or hanging by a thread?
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To help 'left behind' Britain, more adults need to feel able to go to university | Alistair Jarvis
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We need to talk about access and participation data
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The evaluation challenge: understanding what works in access and participation
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Data use for access and participation in higher education
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How can disabled students hold universities to account on access?
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Oxford misses target for state school pupils
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Proportion of poorer students at university stalls
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HESA spring 2020: UKPIs for widening participation
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  • Feb 13, 2020
The Sutton Trust responds to HESA statistics
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Proportion of disadvantaged university students stalls
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Oxford Brookes doing worse than University of Oxford on state school admissions
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Performance indicators: widening participation 2018 to 2019
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  • Feb 13, 2020
Universities still fail to give three-quarters of places to state school pupils despite demands of ministers and regulator
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  • Feb 13, 2020
The future of higher education and the implications for students
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  • Feb 11, 2020
Universities are failing the access challenge and students from poorer areas are missing out
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'Grindingly slow' progress on disadvantaged uni access
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Applicant gap between London and English regions becomes a gulf
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Why would private schools get to dictate who is ‘suitable’ to go to university? | Nathalie Olah
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  • Jan 30, 2020
Education less elitist, but we still have a way to go...
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  • Jan 29, 2020
New OfS report suggests university access gap could halve in five years
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  • Jan 29, 2020
ISC statement: 'Transforming opportunity in higher education' report from the OfS
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Top universities agree targets to improve access for disadvantaged students
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Transforming opportunity in higher education
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An OfS analysis of access and participation plans
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Enrol more mature students to hit access targets, says OfS
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Bonding social capital is a powerful force; we ignore it at our peril
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  • Jan 27, 2020
HESA spring 2020: student numbers and characteristics
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UCAS end of cycle report - AoC responds
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  • Dec 18, 2019
The Office for Students responds to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’
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Student wealth divide is biggest in over a decade
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Poorer London pupils still win race to university
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Widening participation in higher education: 2019
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  • Dec 17, 2019
Gap between rich and poor students at university reaches widest point for a decade
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  • Dec 17, 2019
The Office for Students respond to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’
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Widening Participation: an agenda for the 2020s
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University participation: Disadvantage gap widens to largest in a decade
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Higher education can be a transformative experience for care leavers
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  • Dec 12, 2019
Social mobility and elite universities
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It could take a century to hit the latest official university access targets
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Elite universities ‘will need 100 years’ to hit OfS access goals
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  • Dec 11, 2019
Simulation games: Can gaming break barriers to university?
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Any fool can go to university and get a “confetti” first
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  • Dec 3, 2019
Things have improved for disabled students, but there’s still much to do
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  • Dec 2, 2019
Universities UK welcomes UCAS figures on disadvantaged students
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  • Nov 28, 2019
Teachers told to do more to help poor students into uni
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UCAS' 2019 End of Cycle Report reveals ‘unprecedented opportunity’ for anyone considering university
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  • Nov 28, 2019
University admissions gap between rich and poor students still 'far too wide'
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WAHED event shows how unis can widen access
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  • Nov 27, 2019
Teens from East Midlands least likely in England to go on to leading universities
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  • Nov 27, 2019
Ireland: Review to make third-level education ‘sustainable’
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  • Nov 18, 2019
Progress stalls for poorest applicants to top universities
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  • Nov 15, 2019
Scotland: ‘Postcode lottery’ flawed for access to university
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  • Nov 10, 2019
Widening participation should include those with a criminal record
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  • Nov 6, 2019
Political diversity on campuses is being impoverished by left-wing bias | Mercy Muroki
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  • Oct 24, 2019
Mismatch in higher education report launch at the Nuffield Foundation
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  • Oct 22, 2019
How can people with criminal records access higher education?
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  • Oct 21, 2019
The Oxbridge access question has not been settled
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Back modern universities to boost life chances, says MillionPlus Principal
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  • Oct 14, 2019
How far have we come with LGBT+ welfare in higher education and employment?
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  • Oct 11, 2019
Over half of young people now going to university for first time
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  • Sep 27, 2019
Finally, half of young people at university
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  • Sep 27, 2019
Half of pupils now go to university 20 years after Tony Blair made his controversial pledge
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  • Sep 26, 2019
More than half of young people are going to university for the first time, figures reveal
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  • Sep 26, 2019
The symbolic target of 50% at university reached
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  • Sep 26, 2019
More than half of young people now going into higher education
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  • Sep 26, 2019
A cold spot on the TUNDRA
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  • Sep 25, 2019
Universities must offer equal access to disadvantaged students
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  • Sep 23, 2019
More disadvantaged students than ever have a place at university
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  • Sep 19, 2019
Record number of disadvantaged pupils get university places
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  • Sep 19, 2019
Widening participation work is education work
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  • Sep 19, 2019
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  • Sep 12, 2019
Improve access or face action, universities warned
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Selective universities must follow through on promises to admit more disadvantaged students, regulator says
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  • Sep 9, 2019
New programme to help teens in the north east become doctors and lawyers
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  • Aug 22, 2019
Building the anti-racist classroom
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  • Aug 9, 2019
These are the most affordable university towns in the UK
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  • Aug 5, 2019
Universities could be forced to lower their fees to encourage more students from poor backgrounds to apply for a place
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  • Aug 2, 2019
Universities face fines if they fail the disadvantaged
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  • Aug 2, 2019
‘Symbolically posh’ Bristol University expanding to wrong side of tracks
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  • Jul 30, 2019
Universities Minister sets out progress on access and participation
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  • Jul 15, 2019
State schools find it much harder to access university partnerships
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  • Jul 12, 2019
'East End Eton's' head asks private school parents to give £3,000 to get its pupils into university
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Foundation years and access to HE: An issue of maintenance
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  • Jun 21, 2019
Pole-axed – time for a new measure for widening access
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  • Jun 16, 2019
More poor youngsters must be admitted to Scottish universities even with 'hard cases' of middle-class pupils missing out, ministers told
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  • Jun 13, 2019
Scottish universities praised for improving access for deprived students
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  • Jun 13, 2019
Scotland's ancient universities urged to do more to attract disadvantaged students
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  • Jun 13, 2019
Universities under pressure to widen access
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  • Jun 10, 2019
A-level English can lead to a variety of careers
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  • Jun 4, 2019
Augar on the ground: implications for widening participation
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  • Jun 3, 2019
Building the widening participation evidence base
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  • Jun 3, 2019
Jo Swinson: ‘It is a fact many more young people in Bearsden go to university than go from Govan’
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  • May 31, 2019
Kings partners with University of Bristol
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  • May 31, 2019
The success of the Access to HE students is an example of widening participation in action
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  • May 31, 2019
Will new online guidance on ‘facilitating subjects’ help or hinder fair access to highly-selective universities?
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  • May 24, 2019
Russell Group universities scrap their list of preferred A-level subjects
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  • May 24, 2019
Russell Group universities scrap list of 'facilitating subjects'
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  • May 23, 2019
Bright teenagers risk having university plans 'scuppered' by bad A-levels advice, Russell Group warns
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  • May 23, 2019
Top UK universities plot course for disadvantaged students
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  • May 23, 2019
Russell Group scraps preferred A-levels list after arts subjects hit
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  • May 23, 2019
Russell Group ditches ‘facilitating subjects’ A-level list
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  • May 23, 2019
Teenagers given updated advice on A-level choices
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  • May 23, 2019
Elite universities scrap list of ‘preferred’ A-Levels amid concerns about arts
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  • May 22, 2019
In defence of conditional unconditional offers
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  • May 22, 2019
The Conservatoire Crisis: suggestions from Oxbridge
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  • May 22, 2019
How we break down the barriers to Oxbridge entry
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford schemes for the disadvantaged 'are a big step in the right direction'
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  • May 21, 2019
ISC statement on Oxford University's plans to widen access to pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
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  • May 21, 2019
In praise of POLAR
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford University’s sea-change on widening access: leadership and management of a quiet transformation 
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford University must become more diverse. But we’re already on the right path | Alan Rusbridger
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford University to help disadvantaged gain admission
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford University to offer free year of study to disadvantaged students with lower grades
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  • May 21, 2019
New schemes to get poorer students into Oxford
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  • May 21, 2019
One in four Oxford places set for poorest students by 2023 as university announces 'sea change' in admissions
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford wants one in four students to be from poorer backgrounds
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford University promises 25% of places to disadvantaged
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford steps up push for less privileged students
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  • May 21, 2019
One in four Oxford University places will be ring-fenced for the poorest students by 2023
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford university targets 250 state school pupils in widening access push
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford University agrees to let in disadvantaged students with lower grades
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  • May 21, 2019
Oxford to take 1 in 4 students from deprived backgrounds in new admissions programme
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  • May 21, 2019
Are university open days closing doors to access?
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  • May 20, 2019
Are our children’s prospects fading?
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  • May 15, 2019
Preparing for degree study: Analysis of Access to Higher Education Diplomas and integrated foundation year courses
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  • May 13, 2019
POLAR, MEM and equality: you don’t have to choose
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  • May 13, 2019
Universities ready to fight ‘unlawful’ curbs on offers
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  • May 9, 2019
A framework for fair access to higher education
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  • May 7, 2019
Minister’s attempt to curb unconditional offers is illegal, say universities
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  • May 7, 2019
Oxbridge: ‘Contextual’ offers don’t go far enough
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  • May 3, 2019
Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not
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  • May 3, 2019
Education minister brands lowering of A-level grades as 'lunacy'
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  • May 3, 2019
Degrees for E-Grade pupils? It's mad, says minister
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  • May 3, 2019
Muslim students shouldn't feel that Oxbridge isn't for them
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  • May 2, 2019
Advance HE welcomes the new report, ‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic student attainment at UK universities
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities told to close race ‘degree gap’
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  • May 2, 2019
Fair access: are comprehensive universities the answer?
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  • May 2, 2019
Minister says letting pupils into university with three Es is 'lunacy'
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities urged to close 'degree gap' between black and white students
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  • May 2, 2019
As a black student, I know why our grades are worse: universities don’t listen to us | Adesewa Esther Adebisi
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities told to 'decolonise' their teaching as black and Asian students are put off
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities acting to close BAME student attainment gap
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Lack of role models ‘key cause’ of ethnic minority attainment gap
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  • May 2, 2019
The sector is failing BME students unless closing the attainment gap is made a priority
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  • May 2, 2019
The multiple equality measure – an alternative to POLAR
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  • May 2, 2019
'Long way to go' to eliminate BAME attainment gap at universities
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities told to tackle race attainment gap
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities must 'decolonise' the curriculum to boost black students' grades, vice-Chancellors say
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  • May 2, 2019
Universities told to publish ‘ethnic gap’
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  • May 2, 2019
Contextual admissions – a fuller story
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Colleges told to improve access for HE students by 2038
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UK universities must recruit more white working class students or face the punishment, education secretary warns
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Idea from Harlem transforms young lives in west London
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Nation's prosperity relies on more people of all ages going to university
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OfS invites tenders for Evidence and Impact Exchange
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Graduating alone: family capital and student success
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Oxbridge bursaries failing to attract poorer students
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Unleashing parent power
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University entry 'should be background, not just exams'
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Universities told to lower offers for poor
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45th report re the higher education market
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BTEC snobbery and class prejudice is alive in our moribund HE sector
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A manifesto for access
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The number of black students at Oxford is far from ideal - but it is making progress 
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Universities that fail to improve student diversity could have tuition fees cut, regulator warns
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Our manifesto conclusion by Diana Beech
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Cambridge University asks for help attracting black students
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Cambridge University asks for help enrolling black students
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Donors should propel Oxford down the Ivy League diversity road
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North eastern students six times less likely to start medicine and dentistry degrees than London peers, finds analysis
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Beckett scheme wins social mobility award
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White working-class boys in England 'need more help' to go to university
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Higher education: a diverse range of opportunities for everyone
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Mature students: lost, forgotten, and invisible
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Universities Minister questioned
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Hull: a city and a university raising its head
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Analysing seven years of data on black applicants to HE
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Leeds Beckett in top 10 for equal access for students
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“More can be done” to improve access to HE for refugees – UUKi
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Upending the rankings: Benchmarking widening participation in universities
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Benchmarking widening participation: how should we measure and report progress?
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Time to let the WP Gini out of the bottle
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Comparing widening participation at public and alternative HE providers
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University place demand to grow by 300,000 by 2030
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Baby boom caused by immigration fuels need for 300,000 more places at university by 2030
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300,000 more university places needed to keep up with demand for degrees, study says
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300,000 new university places are required to keep up with demand
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Capped Scotland places ‘make university access harder’
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PM to launch review to help 'pupils of all backgrounds gain equal access to university'
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Theresa May's second-rate education: Mirror Politics morning briefing
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Scotland: Schools ‘must do more to help deprived pupils reach university’
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Help for poorer pupils to go to university could be cut as part of tuition fee reforms
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Don’t leave disadvantaged students out in the cold
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Supporting pupils to discover higher education through the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP)
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Bring back EMA and support FE to widen university access, says NUS
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'Worrying' drop in uni places for poverty-hit Scots
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Universities must revisit BTECs as a route to higher education
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Half of white working-class and black British students in England get into university with vocational qualifications such as BTECs
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Growth in degree apprenticeships mustn’t endanger social mobility
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Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential, the Government’s social mobility action plan - sector response
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UCAS End of Cycle Report shows “pleasing signs of progess” – OFFA
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OFFA welcomes launch of social mobility action plan
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University access gap widens, and five other findings from today's Ucas report
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Of Magic Bullets and Black Boxes – the role of evaluation in WP outreach
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In the news: 27 October 2017
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Report: university admissions in context
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Give poor pupils a two grade break
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‘Top universities should make lower offers to worse-off students’
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Education moves you forward
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UCU response to Sutton Trust report on fairer access to university
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Response to OFFA report on university access
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Implication of subject choice on university entry
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Could we get the best teachers into the most deprived schools?
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Programme for government: Education remains number one priority
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Schools challenged to improve grades for poorest pupils wanting to go to university
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Research round-up 25 August 2017
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Which A-levels to take for the most popular degrees
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Further Education colleges play huge part in increasing access to Higher Education
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Dexter compares the different pathways to endless opportunity
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War of words over poorer Scots’ access to universities
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