The application timeframe for the scheme may have limited the ability of students from poorer backgrounds to take part.
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Foundation year students are more likely to be from an underrepresented background.
To achieve diversity in medical schools, we need to look at the stories behind the numbers.
Working-class academics can play a key role in boosting student diversity.
Problems with who gets access to university date back to the 19th century.
Part-time students are some of the most disadvantaged – universities need money to help them.
The higher education sector must collaborate to reach out to applicants from poor and diverse backgrounds.
There are suggestions that grants to help students cover their living costs could be cut.
Ed Miliband’s pledge to drop fees from £9,000 to £6,000 has been met with alarm by university vice chancellors.
We were told that the 2012 changes to England’s student funding system would boost the number of part-time students at university. But new data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency confirm…
The expansion of higher education in the UK has been driven by a political desire to increase economic growth and to promote social mobility at the same time by drawing more graduates from a larger pool…
By international standards, British universities have extraordinarily high levels of autonomy. They control all of their assets, they employ their own staff, renew their own leadership and governors and…
Halls full of 18-year-old freshers running riot? Bragging tales of gap year misadventure? Older students starting a university course can sometimes find it hard to fit in. But a growing number of mature…
While the proportion of students from more deprived families and neighbourhoods who go to university has been increasing in recent years, those from poorer backgrounds are still far less likely to go to…
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