Capping student numbers a flawed and backward move, university leaders warn
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  • May 9, 2022
Government proposal to cap student numbers going to university would hit social mobility, uni bosses say
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  • May 9, 2022
Minimum grade requirements to get student loan will ‘entrench’ disadvantaged students
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  • May 9, 2022
Universities oppose plan for student cap and loans in England
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  • May 9, 2022
Minimum entry requirements could 'entrench disadvantage', say universities
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  • May 9, 2022
Schools and university partnership working: Why evaluation and collaboration is the cornerstone of widening participation
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  • May 6, 2022
Widening access to HE starts in early childhood
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The HE sector should seize the day on school-university partnerships
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  • May 3, 2022
Time we tapped collective energy to tackle inequalities in HE
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Working together on access and participation evaluation
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Is it students or universities that need to change?
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Cambridge University offers new foundation course
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  • Apr 25, 2022
Social mobility: A university that’s getting it right
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  • Apr 25, 2022
Vocational education: Preventing government from setting up new barriers to access to higher education
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  • Apr 12, 2022
Which comes first: Associate fellowship or widening participation?
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  • Apr 11, 2022
Helping students to access and succeed at university
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  • Apr 7, 2022
‘Hidden hierarchies’ a barrier to partnerships between universities and schools
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Higher education is a route out of poverty, but a government loan cap would block it
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  • Apr 7, 2022
OfS: ‘hidden hierarchies’ blocking school-university partnerships
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Refugees in higher education – a personal perspective
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Universities must remove the barriers facing Access to HE students
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Students need to know the secret codes to success at university
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Disadvantage isn’t just digital
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  • Mar 31, 2022
Brief encounters of the evaluation kind
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The Brilliant Club: Delivering beyond-the-curriculum learning initiatives in schools
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  • Mar 21, 2022
This government’s latest education innovation? Shutting poorer students out of university
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  • Mar 21, 2022
Why we are failing children of prisoners in higher education
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  • Mar 15, 2022
Will accessibility gains be lost in the “new normal”?
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  • Mar 11, 2022
Play your cards right: Social mobility and higher education
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  • Mar 7, 2022
We must not let fiscal drag put a halt to access
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  • Mar 7, 2022
Concerns student loan changes could reduce number of low-income students attending university
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  • Mar 4, 2022
Student loan proposals in England are cruel and punitive
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Widening access is working: Why won’t we admit it?
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Higher education has not been the great leveller Blair envisaged
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  • Mar 1, 2022
Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules
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  • Feb 28, 2022
Paul Johnson: Changes to university fees are set to penalise lower-earning graduates
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  • Feb 28, 2022
Kicking universities is no way to solve the divide between the academic and the rest
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  • Feb 27, 2022
Abandoning university admissions reform 'another nail in the coffin' for widening access to working class communities
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  • Feb 24, 2022
GCSE thresholds for eligibility for student loans could transform access and participation
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  • Feb 24, 2022
Warning over impact of university entry reforms on disadvantaged pupils
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  • Feb 24, 2022
HESA data spring 2022: widening participation performance indicators
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  • Feb 23, 2022
UK Performance Indicators: Widening Participation 2020/21
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Higher education performance indicators UK: widening participation 2020 to 2021
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  • Feb 22, 2022
A vocational view on access and participation is needed from the regulator
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  • Feb 14, 2022
To address gaps in outcomes we need to interrogate the data
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  • Feb 11, 2022
John Blake: No trade-off between access and quality on my watch
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  • Feb 10, 2022
Evaluation supports participation
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  • Feb 9, 2022
Access tsar sets out plans to implement school-university focus
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  • Feb 8, 2022
John Blake sets out vision for fair access and participation
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No trade off between access and quality on my watch
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  • Feb 8, 2022
Investing in children of the north will pay dividends
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  • Feb 3, 2022
UK government wants to reduce university places for poorest, says tsar
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  • Jan 29, 2022
OfS outcomes proposals could improve links between WP and employability
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  • Jan 28, 2022
Minimum thresholds – are we really protecting students?
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  • Jan 26, 2022
From adversity to university: Bringing those affected by homelessness into higher education
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  • Jan 17, 2022
Minimum entry grades ‘would increase degree access inequality’
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  • Jan 12, 2022
Did the pandemic hamper widening access and participation in 2021?
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  • Jan 10, 2022
Why we need to stop using the term widening participation
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  • Dec 17, 2021
Resetting the dial on access and participation
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  • 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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  • Dec 2, 2021
Case studies for a new approach to university access, participation and success
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  • Nov 30, 2021
Should universities be level 3 providers?
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  • Nov 30, 2021
Fixing the leaky pipeline of impact evidence in access and participation work
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  • Nov 29, 2021
A national university led tutoring service could help to level up education
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  • Nov 29, 2021
Higher education can learn from the school sector
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  • Nov 29, 2021
Are universities the right vehicle for schools improvement?
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  • Nov 29, 2021
Nadhim Zahawi launches bid to get universities to take in more white working-class boys
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  • Nov 28, 2021
Report shows university staff are force for social good
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  • Nov 25, 2021
UK universities told to show ambition in graduate job targets
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Moving in the right direction: Social mobility and university access
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  • Nov 24, 2021
The best universities for getting poorer students into high paying jobs are all in London
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  • Nov 24, 2021
England’s most selective universities worst for social mobility, report finds
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Ministers are making new demands on access to and participation in higher education
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Disadvantaged young people four times more likely to become socially mobile if they attend university
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Our response to the new Director for Fair Access and Participation announcement
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Universities must help poorer pupils before they apply for places
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Improve student job prospects or lose funding, universities warned
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  • Nov 24, 2021
England’s most prestigious universities failing to boost social mobility, IFS finds
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Stuck inside of mobility with the access blues again
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Who is John Blake and why was he chosen to lead a new agenda for access & participation?
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Universities to get good job targets for poor students
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  • Nov 24, 2021
New director to lead ‘reboot’ of HE access
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  • 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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  • Nov 24, 2021
How have changes in higher education participation and degree class awards impacted graduate earnings?
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  • Nov 23, 2021
University helps homeless with degree course pledge
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  • Nov 17, 2021
White working class needs college quotas, says actor Eddie Marsan
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  • Nov 17, 2021
Preserving the wonder as we widen access
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  • Nov 10, 2021
‘Levelling up’ depends on reforming routes into higher education
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  • Nov 6, 2021
‘Left-behind’ areas missing out on university access and graduate jobs
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  • Nov 4, 2021
University is popular, but the cost of living is a problem
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  • Nov 1, 2021
Disadvantaged students could be worst hit by reduction in university courses
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  • Nov 1, 2021
Is winter coming for widening access?
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  • Oct 18, 2021
Wealthier students were almost twice as likely to enter HE in 2019-20
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  • Oct 15, 2021
Widening participation in higher education: 2021
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  • Oct 14, 2021
The picture on widening HE participation gets worse the closer you look
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  • Oct 14, 2021
Three ways to help underrepresented groups into higher education
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  • Oct 14, 2021
What might a minimum entry threshold for higher education look like?
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  • Sep 28, 2021
Labour blasts Tories’ ‘smokescreen’ cut to English student intake
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  • Sep 28, 2021
Cost of degrees shifted onto students as participation soars
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  • Sep 16, 2021
Regulatory notice 1: Access and participation plan guidance
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  • Sep 9, 2021
Liverpool teens to get support to access top careers in finance and engineering
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  • Sep 9, 2021
Expanding our Pathways with the University of Liverpool
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  • 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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  • Aug 24, 2021
Do grade inflation and fair access mix?
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  • Aug 12, 2021
Three things to remember about the applicants of 2021
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  • Aug 10, 2021
Only way you'll get to Oxford is on a bus
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  • Aug 6, 2021
Scrapping BTECs 'disastrous' for widening participation
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  • Jul 14, 2021
Augar: 50 per cent HE target yielding to ‘age of everyone’
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  • Jul 6, 2021
University places squeeze: Wealthier students risk losing out
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  • Jul 1, 2021
UCU Scotland comment on latest figures on widening access to university
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  • Jun 30, 2021
Access to university: More students getting full credit
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  • Jun 30, 2021
Scottish universities hit widening access target
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  • Jun 30, 2021
Gendered education policy does more harm to white working-class girls than discussing ‘white privilege’
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  • Jun 29, 2021
Government loans have helped widen access to postgraduate study, but rising tuition fees threaten progress
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  • Jun 24, 2021
Widening postgraduate participation – we need to talk about fees
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  • Jun 24, 2021
The new ‘poor’: Cambridge will hand out bursaries to students from households earning £62,000
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  • Jun 22, 2021
Cambridge University bursaries will help 'remove barriers'
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  • Jun 22, 2021
Set targets for white working-class access, MPs tell regulator
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  • Jun 22, 2021
Excellence and access ‘not mutually exclusive’, says Exeter v-c
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  • Jun 16, 2021
Ireland: Student loans discourage poorer people from entering higher education, says minister
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  • Jun 16, 2021
Scottish universities demand clarity on return, as gap between richest and poorest children in HE widens
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  • Jun 15, 2021
What’s the best way to get more disadvantaged students to the most selective universities?
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  • May 31, 2021
Race disparity head says white privilege focus is damaging
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  • May 30, 2021
Fair access to English higher education in the 21st century – a story in five parts
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  • May 13, 2021
Daring outreach during risk adverse times
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  • Apr 22, 2021
Here’s what happened when I read every Access and Participation Plan
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  • Apr 9, 2021
Building on success: a new focus for Uni Connect
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  • Mar 26, 2021
Evaluation in a time of crisis
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  • Mar 26, 2021
Who benefits from higher education study?
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  • Mar 26, 2021
Evaluation in a time of crisis
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  • Mar 24, 2021
Education, widening participation and the digital divide
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  • Mar 24, 2021
The Fair Access Coalition: 10 requirements for a fair admissions process
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  • Mar 22, 2021
Quality matters: The census and HESA widening participation data
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  • Mar 16, 2021
The new narrative in data on access and participation
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  • Mar 13, 2021
Gap in participation at higher-tariff universities narrows
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  • Mar 12, 2021
Evaluation of access and participation plan reforms
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  • Mar 11, 2021
No detriment seems to have helped disadvantaged students attain their potential
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  • Mar 11, 2021
Checking privilege in the graduate labour market – can universities make a difference?
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  • Mar 8, 2021
Chancellor awards scholarship to four students to help enhance opportunities
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  • Feb 16, 2021
HESA Spring: Widening Participation UKPI
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  • Feb 12, 2021
Two in five top universities see drop in students from state schools
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  • Feb 11, 2021
Higher education performance indicators UK: widening participation 2019 to 2020
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  • Feb 11, 2021
UK Performance Indicators: Widening Participation, 2019/20
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  • Feb 11, 2021
Defunding BTECs could set the widening access agenda back by decades
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  • 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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  • Jan 26, 2021
Poor white teenagers are least likely group to go to university, watchdog warns
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  • Jan 26, 2021
Poor white youngsters in 'left behind' towns much more likely to miss out on university
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  • Jan 26, 2021
White students who are left behind: the importance of place
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  • Jan 26, 2021
Poor white teens in 'left behind' towns not going to uni
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  • Jan 26, 2021
‘Left-behind’ white working class shun university places
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  • Jan 26, 2021
The Disabled Students’ Commission: Making a difference for disabled students in higher education
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Disabled Students’ Commission publishes annual report
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  • Jan 21, 2021
University funding to attract poorer students may fall
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Strathclyde University pledges to help Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities
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  • Jan 20, 2021
England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries
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  • Jan 20, 2021
Barber: capping student numbers would stifle social mobility
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  • Jan 20, 2021
Bolder approach needed to make university admissions fairer
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  • Jan 14, 2021
Rethinking fair admissions
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  • Jan 14, 2021
Selective universities are making progress on fairly assessing merit in admissions
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  • Jan 14, 2021
Elite universities told to lower entry grades
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  • Jan 14, 2021
UCAS analysis shows potential for step change in equality by 2030
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  • Dec 16, 2020
Uni Connect consultation: routes to success
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  • Dec 15, 2020
Student submissions for the monitoring of 2019-20 access and participation plans
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  • Dec 14, 2020
Widening participation for students with Speech, Language and Communication needs in higher education
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  • Dec 8, 2020
'I didn't feel I fitted in': why Gypsies, Roma and Travellers don't go to university
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  • Nov 30, 2020
Letter to accountable officers: Monitoring of access and participation plans 2019-20
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  • Nov 26, 2020
'You need someone on the inside': the state school students helping peers into Oxbridge
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Oxbridge University admissions Widening participation University applications
  • Nov 23, 2020
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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  • Nov 20, 2020
‘Global strategy needed’ for refugee students
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Refugees Coronavirus Widening access Widening participation
  • Nov 17, 2020
Michelle Donelan: ‘not useful to talk targets’ on HE enrolment
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Michelle Donelan Widening participation Enrolments
  • Nov 17, 2020
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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  • Nov 4, 2020
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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University access Widening participation
  • Nov 3, 2020
Everyone needs a home. So why do we deny them to estranged students?
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Estranged students University access Widening participation
  • Nov 3, 2020
Disadvantaged students fall behind on access to top universities
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Disadvantaged students University access Widening participation
  • Nov 3, 2020
Do we misunderstand being marginalised?
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University access Widening participation
  • Oct 16, 2020
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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University access Widening participation Coronavirus
  • Oct 2, 2020
Access to higher education before, during and after the pandemic
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University access Widening participation
  • Sep 30, 2020
Higher education is transformative – it should be open to all
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  • Sep 23, 2020
Why further and higher education aren’t a zero-sum-game
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Widening participation
  • Sep 1, 2020
September will be better than April – but not for everyone
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Coronavirus Widening participation University access
  • Sep 1, 2020
Who gets squeezed out when places are restricted?
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University places University access Widening participation
  • 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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A-levels Results Highers University access Widening participation
  • Aug 11, 2020
Closing off university access is the essence of levelling down
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University access Widening participation
  • Aug 6, 2020
Geographical inequality in incomes has been falling, but wealth inequalities are rising
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Regional inequality Disadvantaged Coronavirus Widening participation Free school meals
  • Aug 3, 2020
Geographical inequality in incomes has been falling, but wealth inequalities are rising
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Regional inequality Disadvantaged Free school meals Widening participation Coronavirus
  • Aug 3, 2020
Widening participation in higher education: 2020
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Widening participation
  • Jul 30, 2020
True social mobility – false dichotomies in the new post-compulsory policy
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  • Jul 22, 2020
We need to talk – dialogue in widening access
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Widening participation University access Coronavirus
  • Jul 17, 2020
A strange speech to widening participation practitioners
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University access Widening participation
  • Jul 5, 2020
Could the response to Covid-19 help build more inclusive learning environments?
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Coronavirus Inclusion Widening participation University access
  • Jul 5, 2020
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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Value for money Disadvantaged students Social mobility Widening participation University access
  • Jul 1, 2020
Universities 'must help' pupils hit hardest by pandemic
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Coronavirus Disadvantaged pupils Widening participation University access
  • Jul 1, 2020
Regional WP is no longer enough – we need national collaboration
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Widening participation Collaboration
  • Jun 30, 2020
Student number controls harm access – in ways you might not realise
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University access Widening participation Student quotas
  • Jun 23, 2020
Four pillars of good practice that will help WP teams recover from Covid-19
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Coronavirus Widening participation University access
  • Jun 22, 2020
Why and how the post-Covid world could offer more opportunities for widening participation in England
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Coronavirus Widening participation
  • Jun 16, 2020
Covid-19 and EdTech: a chance for HE to rethink quality of provision and equality of access
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Coronavirus Ed tech University access Widening participation Equality
  • Jun 10, 2020
A call to action on widening participation in the era of Covid-19
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Coronavirus Widening participation University access
  • 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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Coronavirus University access Widening participation
  • Jun 3, 2020
Why can’t Million Plus have any additional student numbers?
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Coronavirus University access Widening participation TEF
  • Jun 3, 2020
Widening participation: advocacy is as great a challenge as delivery
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Widening participation
  • Jun 2, 2020
Transforming access and participation demands a national strategy
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University access Widening participation Coronavirus
  • May 27, 2020
Access to higher education: what the OfS revealed today
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OfS University access Widening participation
  • May 18, 2020
Widening participation matters too much for Covid-19 to shut it down
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Coronavirus Widening participation University access
  • May 17, 2020
Best laid plans? Ambitions for student access and participation in the new reality
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Coronavirus Widening participation University access
  • May 14, 2020
Updates to information supporting access and participation plans
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University access Widening participation
  • May 6, 2020
Regulatory notice 1: Access and participation plan guidance
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OfS Regulation University access Widening participation
  • May 5, 2020
Navigating the aspiration trap: white working-class students and widening access to higher education
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Tertiary education Widening participation University access Working class
  • Apr 21, 2020
Digital can’t replace face to face when it comes to widening participation
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Coronavirus University access Widening participation Disadvantaged students Online learning
  • Apr 14, 2020
More students from deprived neighbourhoods enter HE
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Disadvantaged students University admissions University access Widening participation Scotland
  • Apr 7, 2020
We must not abandon widening participation this year
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Coronavirus University access Widening participation
  • Apr 5, 2020
How to square widening participation with student number caps
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  • Apr 2, 2020
How to make universities more inclusive? Hire more working-class academics
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  • Feb 27, 2020
We need to talk about access and participation data
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University access Widening participation
  • Feb 19, 2020
The evaluation challenge: understanding what works in access and participation
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  • Feb 18, 2020
Data use for access and participation in higher education
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  • Feb 18, 2020
How can disabled students hold universities to account on access?
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  • Feb 14, 2020
Oxford misses target for state school pupils
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  • Feb 14, 2020
Proportion of poorer students at university stalls
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  • Feb 13, 2020
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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  • Feb 13, 2020
Proportion of disadvantaged university students stalls
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  • Feb 13, 2020
Oxford Brookes doing worse than University of Oxford on state school admissions
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  • Feb 13, 2020
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
Universities are failing the access challenge and students from poorer areas are missing out
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  • Feb 10, 2020
Are we asking the wrong question on widening participation?
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  • Feb 6, 2020
Applicant gap between London and English regions becomes a gulf
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  • Feb 6, 2020
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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  • Jan 29, 2020
Top universities agree targets to improve access for disadvantaged students
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Transforming opportunity in higher education
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  • Jan 29, 2020
An OfS analysis of access and participation plans
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Enrol more mature students to hit access targets, says OfS
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Private schools criticise plans to get more poor students into university
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Bonding social capital is a powerful force; we ignore it at our peril
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  • Jan 27, 2020
EPI study highlights ‘lack of evidence’ on university outreach schemes
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Middle-class high achievers will miss out on Oxbridge places as colleges are under pressure to meet diversity targets, whistleblowers warn
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  • Jan 18, 2020
HESA spring 2020: student numbers and characteristics
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  • Jan 17, 2020
University deprived background targets are nearly met
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  • Jan 16, 2020
Scottish universities close to meeting deprived background targets ahead of schedule
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  • Jan 16, 2020
What has been learned from 20 years of published articles on widening participation and lifelong learning?
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Widening participation
  • Jan 14, 2020
Widening participation in higher education: 2019
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  • Dec 17, 2019
The Office for Students respond to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’
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  • Dec 17, 2019
Widening Participation: an agenda for the 2020s
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  • Dec 17, 2019
Higher education can be a transformative experience for care leavers
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  • Dec 12, 2019
When students' attainment is mismatched with their university course, life chances are affected
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  • Dec 9, 2019
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
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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  • Nov 28, 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
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
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
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
Statistics: widening participation in higher education
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  • Sep 12, 2019
Building the anti-racist classroom
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  • Aug 9, 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
Pole-axed – time for a new measure for widening access
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  • Jun 16, 2019
Universities should admit students even if they only achieved D grades at A-Level, says minister
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  • Jun 14, 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
Contextual uni offers ‘create perception of unfairness’
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  • Jun 6, 2019
Oxford makes progress on diversity – but too slowly, says university head
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  • Jun 6, 2019
Record ethnic minority students at Oxford
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  • Jun 6, 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
The success of the Access to HE students is an example of widening participation in action
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  • May 31, 2019
Four ways the Augar review impacts on widening participation in higher education
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  • May 30, 2019
Top UK universities plot course for disadvantaged students
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  • May 23, 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
POLAR, MEM and equality: you don’t have to choose
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  • May 13, 2019
Black students reluctant to apply to Cambridge University 'due to lack of Afro-Caribbean hairdressers'
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  • May 9, 2019
A framework for fair access to higher education
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  • May 7, 2019
Scotland: New framework to help those from poorer areas access university
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  • May 7, 2019
Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not
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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
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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  • May 2, 2019
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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  • May 1, 2019
Contextual admissions: Promoting fairness and rethinking merit
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  • May 1, 2019
Radical change required to close the BME gap
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  • May 1, 2019
Addressing social inequality
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Access and participation in focus
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  • Apr 29, 2019
Has OfS got the regulation of access and participation right?
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  • Apr 28, 2019
Fair access means admitting more applicants with lower grades
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  • Apr 28, 2019
Access and participation is about more than courses
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  • Apr 28, 2019
Access and participation data unpacked
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  • Apr 18, 2019
We’re not in Kansas anymore: the new standards of evidence
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  • Mar 31, 2019
Universities must do more for black students, warns watchdog
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  • Mar 29, 2019
Record number of students in higher education in Scotland
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  • Mar 26, 2019
Lee Elliot Major: university access heading for ‘perfect storm’
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  • Mar 26, 2019
Shakira Martin on widening participation
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Attainment versus grade inflation: which students are caught in the middle?
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  • Mar 18, 2019
Principles to guide HE providers on improving care leavers access and participation in HE
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  • Mar 14, 2019
A university place for all is the way to abolish tuition fees | Nick Hillman
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  • Mar 12, 2019
What could Brexit mean for widening participation?
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  • Mar 12, 2019
Experimental UK performance indicators 2017 to 2018: widening participation and non-continuation rates
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  • Mar 7, 2019
Evidence for impact on access and participation
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Universities Minister calls for greater improvement on access
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Moving the dial on contextual admissions
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  • Feb 28, 2019
What works to promote equal opportunities?
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  • Feb 28, 2019
No surprises on access and participation
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Evidence for impact on access and participation
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  • Feb 28, 2019
The gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students at ‘top’ universities has increased – here’s why
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Scottish universities still out of reach for poorer pupils
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Review of ‘Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem’
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Rise in foreign students means fewer British undergraduates are getting into Oxford and Cambridge
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Oxford and Cambridge universities fail to raise UK student numbers
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  • Feb 27, 2019
UK students squeezed out of Cambridge and Oxford
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  • Feb 27, 2019
British undergraduates at Oxbridge fall amid concern they are being “squeezed out” by foreign students
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  • Feb 26, 2019
Wealth gap at Scotland's universities widens with little progress in closing gulf in school attainment
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  • Feb 26, 2019
Tuition fees cut ‘is student cap by stealth’
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  • Feb 22, 2019
Universities may have to shut door on elite to hit access targets
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  • Feb 21, 2019
Oxford and Cambridge universities not doing enough to recruit poorer students, most Britons believe
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  • Feb 19, 2019
England lacks white working-class graduates. Quick fixes won’t change that | Phil McDuff
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  • Feb 18, 2019
Scotland's ancient universities unveil lower entry grades for poor youngsters
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  • Feb 13, 2019
Place matters in progression to higher education
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  • Feb 12, 2019
Widening participation in a demographic dip
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  • Feb 8, 2019
Performance indicators: widening participation 2017 to 2018
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  • Feb 7, 2019
Gap between rich and poor students at top universities widens for first time in decade
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Don’t underestimate the value of “what works” in widening participation
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Is the shift to outcomes as simple as it sounds?
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Tes profile: 'Schools must build aspiration,' says Ucas chief
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  • Jan 18, 2019
Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Don’t harm opportunities for other people’s children
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  • Jan 14, 2019
In this report, it’s the evidence that’s selective
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  • Jan 14, 2019
A lack of aspiration is not the problem
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  • Jan 11, 2019
Oxford and Cambridge must launch new colleges for disadvantaged young people | Andrew Adonis
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Let’s go fly a kite: access and participation
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  • Jan 8, 2019
Tuition fees cut would hurt poor, prime minister told
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  • Jan 7, 2019
Can Swedish images of engineering help UK universities widen participation in engineering degrees?
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  • Jan 3, 2019
Regulating access and participation
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  • Dec 13, 2018
How OfS will regulate access and participation
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  • Dec 13, 2018
The uncomfortable truth of access evaluation
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Which countries are best at widening access to higher education?
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  • Dec 5, 2018
What does access to higher education look like around the world?
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  • Nov 28, 2018
Improving access to elite universities remains slow
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  • Nov 28, 2018
Universities failing to boost number of poorer students
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  • Nov 28, 2018
Widening participation in higher education: 2018
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  • Nov 22, 2018
Statistics: widening participation in higher education
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  • Nov 22, 2018
Getting on, not just getting in, is what matters
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  • Oct 18, 2018
We need to reach children before they decide university isn't for them | Christopher Birchall
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  • Oct 18, 2018
The apprenticeships ladder of opportunity: quality not quantity
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  • Oct 8, 2018
Anything for universities at the Labour and Conservative conferences?
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  • Oct 4, 2018
School of hard knock-backs: how to engage schools and colleges
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  • Sep 24, 2018
Ladders are best designed by people who know what it’s like to climb one
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Unexpected peaks: widening participation in Scotland
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Why we should select students by lottery
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More Scots going to university as gap between rich and poor narrows
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Other countries are proud of their universities. The UK must be too | Chris Husbands
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OfS access consultation
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OfS to consult on regulation changes
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Top universities to face pressure over admissions
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Tough targets on poor students
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British universities could be closed unless they work harder to recruit more poor students
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A step change for access and participation?
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Opportunity areas grant: S31 grant determination and letters
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Widening participation and unblocking the skills pipeline
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  • Aug 22, 2018
Government accused of 'total failure' to widen elite university access
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"Horizon shift" called for in access regulation
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Universities chief calls for ministers to bring back maintenance grants amid diversity criticism
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Universities should pitch to parents as well as pupils
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Deaf pupils less likely to go to top universities
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Deaf students far less likely to attend prestigious UK universities than classmates, report finds
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  • Jun 21, 2018
The focus on university access AND success is welcome, but let’s not repeat past mistakes
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It’s time for fundamental reform of university admissions
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Public Accounts Committee report finds the HE market is not working in the interests of students or taxpayers
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A manifesto for access
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Scotland: Brexit ‘will help disadvantaged Scots get to university’
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Beckett scheme wins social mobility award
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New report calls on universities to take radical steps to make higher education accessible for all
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White working-class boys in England 'need more help' to go to university
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Universities Minister questioned
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Scotland: Improvement by degrees
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“More can be done” to improve access to HE for refugees – UUKi
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Let’s hear it for the VC! Why we must start listening to vice-chancellors on the big policy questions
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Upending the rankings: Benchmarking widening participation in universities
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Time to let the WP Gini out of the bottle
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Cambridge ranked last in university fair access table
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Comparing widening participation at public and alternative HE providers
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Experimental UK Performance Indicators 2016 to 2017: Widening participation and non-continuation rates
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The state of fair access as OFFA departs the scene
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Forgotten Learners: Stepping up to higher education at Staffordshire
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How to overcome the stratification of higher education
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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 new university places are required to keep up with demand
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Forgotten learners: age should never be a barrier to higher education
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Review shows that OFFA’s approach to evidence has driven change in access
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‘Successful students: exploring the factors that encourage and enable students from a widening participation background to stay the course’
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Above and beyond: Widening participation for apprenticeship learners within Health and Social Care
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Universities urged to do more on widening access
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Director of Fair Access addresses MPs on remaining challenges in fair access
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HEFCE history: The birth of widening participation
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Leader: University tuition fees and the common good
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Drop in university applications from deprived pupils is a 'wake-up call', says Scotland's fair access tsar
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PM to launch review to help 'pupils of all backgrounds gain equal access to university'
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Scotland: Schools ‘must do more to help deprived pupils reach university’
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Pulling together on social mobility
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HESA widening participation 16/17 – visualised
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Two in five universities have seen a drop in the proportion of students from state schools
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MillionPlus comment on the HESA widening participation performance indicators
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Education Secretary welcomes record proportion of university entrants from state schools
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Diversity and ambition
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Hearts must have courage for the changing of the WP guards
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Call for universities to fast-track bright pupils into the second year of degree courses
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Drive to provide equality of opportunity ‘must begin at primary school’
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Top DfE official admits FE not represented on Office of Students board
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Understanding effective approaches to part-time provision
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Widen thinking as well as participation
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UCAS End of Cycle report 2017
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English and Scottish 18 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds more likely to enter higher education than ever before
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Barriers for BTEC students to fit in at high-tariff universities
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Twice as many poor students attend universities since fees were brought in
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Let’s talk about university readiness, not just widening participation
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Budget 2017: Colleges to get level three maths funding boost
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Advancing Access - resources for teachers
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UVAC degree apprenticeship myth busting at the Skills Show
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University-school partnerships driving social mobility
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Of Magic Bullets and Black Boxes – the role of evaluation in WP outreach
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New data regulations are coming – is your widening participation project ready?
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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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100 MPs call on Oxbridge chancellors to take ‘urgent action’ on widening admissions
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Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017
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OFFA calls for fundamental changes in widening participation
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Social capital: the new frontier in widening participation at universities
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Almost half of all young people in England go on to higher education
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The price of accessing higher education
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Achieving change through partnership – what does success look like for the National Collaborative Outreach Programme?
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The path to higher education: is there a London effect?
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Top universities 'incredibly slow' to take more disadvantaged students – report
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LSE tops social mobility report
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New Insights on WP: Building students’ self-awareness in untraditional settings
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New Insights on WP: A behavioural approach
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Policy Tracker - what happened in the world of education in August 2017
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Villiers Park Educational Trust comment on OFFA’s Access Agreements
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Further Education colleges play huge part in increasing access to Higher Education
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New Insights on WP: Care leavers and their paths to higher education
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School leaver in-take on the rise, says Grant Thornton UK LLP
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If degree apprenticeships are to widen access, we need to raise awareness | Petra Wilton
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Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 18 August 2017
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New insights on WP: The importance of social capital
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Lawyer who gave up six-figure salary to become headteacher sends 95% of pupils to top universities
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New insights on widening participation: foreword by Les Ebdon
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Just one in five students in the country’s poorest communities will make it to university
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Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds continue to struggle to reach their full potential - sector response
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Daily roundup 14 August: Left-handed children, child poverty, SEND inspection
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Teach First report on access to university
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Beware the aftershocks of the youthquake – it’s a bit more complicated than that
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  • Aug 11, 2017
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OFFA calls for transformational change
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ATL comment on Sutton Trust report showing fewer young people aspire to attend university
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Further education in England needs more policy attention, says study
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  • Aug 10, 2017
Some university leaders will only pay 'lip service' to improving social mobility unless forced to change, head of regulator claims
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  • Aug 10, 2017
The path to higher education: obstacles remain for the disadvantaged
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  • Aug 7, 2017
In the news: 4 August 2017
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More disadvantaged pupils going to university
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Widening participation in higher education: 2017
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Diversity drive at top universities is failing, as official figures reveal largest ever gap between state and private school students
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Widening participation in higher education and the attainment gap - sector response
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University access gap between poor pupils and their peers widens
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The promise of summer schools
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  • Jul 27, 2017
MillionPlus welcomes HEPI’s The Comprehensive University paper
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  • Jul 20, 2017
What did Dearing ever do for us? Twenty years of the ‘learning society’
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Should universities be forced to sponsor schools?
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The right letter at the right time, and applicant aspirations
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  • Jun 30, 2017
University drop-out rate for students from poorer homes at highest level in five years
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Election spotlight on HE policy: Liberal Democrats
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Election spotlight on HE policy: Scottish National Party (SNP)
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Election spotlight on HE policy: Plaid Cymru
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Tuition fees in the news: student participation and disadvantage
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Conservatives have been an 'unmitigated disaster' for education, says Sally Hunt
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Advancing Access: Support for teachers will boost access to leading universities
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  • May 10, 2017
University staff: VCs are too 'far away from the day-to-day reality'
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An experimental approach to evaluate the impact of outreach
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Looking fair and wide on university access
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Widening access now has a business and social imperative
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If Oxbridge is the only solution, we’re asking the wrong questions
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Higher education institutions could do more to help BTEC students, says new HEPI report
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Help schools boost poor pupils' grades, universities told
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BBC HE Universities Access Disadvantaged pupils OFFA Widening participation Attainment
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Let’s have a Blair-Cameron College at Cambridge | Nick Hillman
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Guardian HE Universities Access Higher Education and Research Bill Widening participation
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Sir Peter Lampl comments on UCAS’ End of Cycle report
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Sutton Trust UCAS Access Gender gap Widening participation HE Universities
  • Dec 15, 2016
Record numbers of 18-year-olds accepted to university in 2016
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Universities UK HE Universities UCAS Access Disadvantaged students Social mobility Widening participation
  • Dec 14, 2016
A new approach to widening participation in higher education
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HEFCE HE Universities Widening participation Progression
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Only 4% of South Africans who start school get a degree
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University World News Universities Higher Education South Africa Disadvantaged pupils Schools Widening participation HE
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