52 students will go to Cambridge with BBB A-level grades under university's new Foundation Year scheme
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  • Apr 25, 2022
Targeting Blair: we ignore calls to address inequality and improve productivity at our peril
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  • Apr 25, 2022
A fair future for students
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  • Feb 9, 2022
Ask your MP to give every child a fair start
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Giving widening access a real reboot
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  • Jan 7, 2022
Spotlight on: Latymer’s partnership programmes and bursary provision
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  • Dec 13, 2021
Success is less about where you’re from, than where you go | Torsten Bell
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  • Mar 21, 2021
Grammar schools face call to spend extra cash on widening intake
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  • Feb 25, 2021
Level 4 Apprenticeships and above - we need to widen access to level up
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  • Jan 22, 2021
‘Global strategy needed’ for refugee students
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  • Nov 17, 2020
Widening access to LSE remains a top priority for the School
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  • Sep 22, 2020
Grammar schools told to improve disabled pupils' access
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  • Sep 9, 2020
UK HE must widen access to international experiences says former Universities minister
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  • Aug 5, 2020
New bursaries and broader eligibility criteria for Advanced Teacher Status applicants
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  • Jun 8, 2020
Widening access progress harmed by Covid-19
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  • Jun 5, 2020
Universities and colleges together can change lives
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  • May 27, 2020
Top unis agree disadvantaged pupils admissions targets
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Plans to boost disadvantaged university students could ‘discriminate’ against better-off pupils, private schools say
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Education experts warn of bid to boost numbers of disadvantaged students getting to Oxbridge
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Top universities to give more places to disadvantaged
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Top universities step up efforts to close inequality gap
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  • Jan 28, 2020
To close access and participation gaps we need to close our understanding gaps
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  • Jan 23, 2020
The impact of interventions for widening access to higher education: a review of the evidence
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  • Jan 23, 2020
The impact of interventions for widening access to higher education: a review of the evidence
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Gap between rich and poor university students ‘remains stark’ as little evidence shows interventions work
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Academics take aim at ‘flawed’ grammar school study
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Grammar schools fail the top university test
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Widening prisoner access to degree courses ‘could save millions’
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  • Oct 24, 2019
IB ends exam registration fee in bid to widen access
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  • Jul 24, 2019
Identify outreach students nationally, says report
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  • Jun 17, 2019
Philip lends name to bursary foundation for Gordonstoun
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  • May 10, 2019
Black students reluctant to apply to Cambridge University 'due to lack of Afro-Caribbean hairdressers'
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  • May 9, 2019
Access and participation is about more than courses
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Bashing private schools won't bring education equality
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  • Apr 25, 2019
Learn lessons from abroad on apprenticeships
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  • Apr 3, 2019
Wealthiest youngsters snap up degree apprenticeships
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  • Mar 8, 2019
Degree apprenticeships dominated by white students and those from more affluent areas, report finds
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  • Mar 8, 2019
Number of state school pupils attending university drops despite efforts to widen access
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  • Feb 7, 2019
Oxford president demands octopus is taken off college menu
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  • Jan 18, 2019
Oxford college bans octopus from menu in bid to make disadvantaged students feel more 'comfortable'
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Scotland: Universities accept record number of students from deprived areas
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  • Jan 17, 2019
The key to contextualised admissions
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  • Jan 17, 2019
We have to widen access to apprenticeships
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  • Jan 15, 2019
Supporting social mobility through the post-18 review
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Don’t diss private schools over Oxbridge entries
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Cutting tuition fees could hurt poorer students, claims social mobility tsar
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  • Dec 9, 2018
Which countries are best at widening access to higher education?
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  • Dec 5, 2018
4.00pm: Education sector representatives give evidence to the Committee
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  • Nov 13, 2018
‘GoCompare’ style app will level playing field for poorer students, minister says
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  • Nov 2, 2018
University admissions have to change: it’s time for PQA
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  • Sep 3, 2018
Cambridge University plans free degrees for poorest students
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  • Aug 18, 2018
Scottish Government drive to help deprived students ‘flawed’
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Contextualised admissions report
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  • Jul 10, 2018
Putting fairness in context: using data to widen access to university
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  • Jul 9, 2018
Kirsti Lord: I worry about life choices based on a set of exams taken at 16
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  • Jul 3, 2018
Public Accounts Committee report finds the HE market is not working in the interests of students or taxpayers
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  • Jun 15, 2018
Donors should propel Oxford down the Ivy League diversity road
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  • May 26, 2018
Oxford’s Wadham College: Diversity drives standards up, not down
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  • May 23, 2018
Manifesto idea #10: Graeme Atherton
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  • May 17, 2018
Thinking big: 35 ideas for widening access to higher education
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  • May 10, 2018
UCU comment on HEPI Brightside report on widening access to higher education
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  • May 9, 2018
To widen access, you need to engage teachers
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  • Apr 24, 2018
'Education needs fairer funding, not new institutions'
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  • Apr 23, 2018
Prof John Raftery writes for THE: Elitism is alive and well in most UK universities
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  • Mar 8, 2018
Scottish Parliament: written answer on widening access to higher education
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  • Mar 8, 2018
Universities urged to do more on widening access
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  • Mar 6, 2018
Universities need to help poorer Scots pupils win places
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  • Feb 21, 2018
AoC's response to the Prime Minister's announcement on the post-18 education and funding review
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  • Feb 19, 2018
Five things the university funding review must do
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  • Feb 19, 2018
OFFA comment on launch of post-18 education and funding review
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  • Feb 19, 2018
PRIME 2018: Building diversity in law
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Supporting pupils to discover higher education through the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP)
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  • Feb 8, 2018
Bring back EMA and support FE to widen university access, says NUS
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  • Feb 8, 2018
Plans to lower university entry grades for poorer students lack support from pupils
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  • Feb 6, 2018
Universities embrace city schools to offer key qualifications
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  • Jan 31, 2018
OFFA comment on UCAS data for individual universities
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Scotland: Barriers facing poorer students at university are likened to racism
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  • Jan 24, 2018
Case Study: The university hub delivering record exam results for school pupils
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Plans to widen access to grammar schools delayed by reshuffle
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  • Jan 9, 2018
White working class boys 'at bottom of heap' because of focus on minorities and women
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  • Jan 4, 2018
Daily roundup 22 December: Geographical divide, child sexual exploitation, and special measures
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  • Dec 22, 2017
Access to high performance schools in England
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  • Dec 22, 2017
Access to high performing schools in England
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Born in the wrong place for good schools?
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Social mobility action plan response
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Scots universities told to drop entry grades for poor students
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  • Dec 13, 2017
NUS Scotland welcomes Commissioner for Fair Access’ report
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Accelerated degrees: widening student choice in higher education
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  • Dec 11, 2017
Scotland: Rich school leavers twice as likely to go to university
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  • Dec 11, 2017
Online learning could transform global access to higher education
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  • Dec 8, 2017
Young Londoners 25 per cent more likely to enter higher education in 2017 than their counterparts across the rest of England
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  • Dec 8, 2017
Scotland: Bias of female teachers ‘could limit boys’
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Students with BTECs do worse at university – here's how we close the gap | Angus Holford
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Fairer fees – an overview – Sutton Trust
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  • Nov 20, 2017
University fundraising
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  • Nov 20, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 17 November 2017
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  • Nov 17, 2017
Thousands of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies announced
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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
Report: university admissions in context
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  • Oct 27, 2017
‘Top universities should make lower offers to worse-off students’
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  • Oct 26, 2017
100 MPs call on Oxbridge chancellors to take ‘urgent action’ on widening admissions
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Required reading: How can we fix the Oxbridge problem?
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Whatever happened to the promise of online learning?
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Levy cash must be used to widen access to apprenticeships
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  • Oct 23, 2017
Huge variation in HE access performance across world, OECD data reveals
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  • Oct 7, 2017
Invitation to tender: Understanding the evaluation of outreach interventions to widen access to higher education for under 16 year olds in England from disadvantaged backgrounds
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  • Sep 19, 2017
Les Ebdon: ‘We need a step change on widening access‘
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Reform report on widening access
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  • Sep 5, 2017
Not by degrees: Improving student mental health in the UK's universities
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  • Sep 4, 2017
Ireland: universities should guide all learners towards a better future
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  • Aug 28, 2017
Colleges 'should play a key role in widening access to university'
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  • Aug 10, 2017
OFFA comment on Universities UK patterns and trends report
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  • Jul 21, 2017
Lucy Powell MP: Putting social mobility at the heart of government policy means grammar schools need to change
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Daily roundup 4 July: Solitary confinement, social mobility, and cadet abuse
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  • Jul 4, 2017
OFFA publishes outcomes of access agreement monitoring for 2015-16
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  • Jun 29, 2017
OFFA access reports
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Oxford and Cambridge 'need to improve access for disadvantaged students'
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Analysis: 'Dumbing down' myths scotched by university scheme to widen access to medicine
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Oxbridge 'must do more to recognise potential in poorer applicants', says universities tsar
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  • Jun 28, 2017
An analysis of 2 decades of efforts to improve social mobility
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Social mobility: radical reform urged to repair divided Britain
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Should universities raise school attainment? Yes, and here’s why
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  • Jun 6, 2017
Andrew Denholm: Research illuminates debate on fair university access after finally seeing the light of day
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  • May 5, 2017
Progress on closing the gap on fair university access
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  • Apr 11, 2017
Leading universities still failing to attract the poorest students
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  • Mar 31, 2017
The Herald launches its prestigious annual higher education awards
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Will T-levels follow the important role of BTECs in widening HE access?
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  • Mar 28, 2017
Widening access now has a business and social imperative
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  • Mar 27, 2017
One in 3 pupils on university access scheme privately educated
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  • Mar 20, 2017
One in 3 pupils on university access scheme privately educated
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  • Mar 20, 2017
How far is Scotland from meeting its 2021 widening access targets?
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  • Feb 14, 2017