Alan Milburn says ‘school failure is creating barrier to university’
University academics should be sent into underachieving state schools to raise standards among poor pupils, according to the Government’s social mobility tsar. Lecturers should be expected to provide...
View ArticleCoalition’s child poverty adviser Alan Milburn says bring back EMA
The coalition made “a very bad mistake” when it abolished the education maintenance allowance (EMA) in England aimed at helping poorer 16- to 17-year-olds stay on at school, says Alan Milburn, the...
View ArticleSchools should resist Oxbridge entries ‘snobbery’, says access tsar
Schools should resist the “dreadful snobbery” of focusing too much on propelling a handful of pupils into Oxbridge and other elite universities and should instead concentrate on providing the best...
View ArticlePoor pupils ‘being set up to fail’, top university warns
Forcing universities to admit rising numbers of teenagers with lower entry grades risks setting them up to “fail”, one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions has warned. In an unprecedented...
View ArticleLabour peer criticises university access tsar over ‘snobbery’ comments
A former Labour education minister has questioned whether the Government’s higher education access tsar is fit for his job after he criticised the “dreadful snobbery” that pressures pupils to study at...
View Article£9,000 fees putting a generation of boys off university
A generation of boys is turning its back on university in the wake of the rise in tuition fees to up to £9,000 a year, according to figures released today, with the gender gap in entrants at an all...
View ArticleWilletts: Universities should treat white working-class boys like ethnic...
Universities minister David Willets says universities are to be told they should recruit more white, working-class boys in the wake of figures showing a massive slump in applications from men for...
View Article‘Comprehensive schools have failed the working class’
Journalist Ian Silvera claims that David Willetts is wrong and the real problem for white working-class boys is comprehensives, not universities. This is from the Guardian… David Willetts has now...
View ArticleWhite working-class males: how to get more into university
Professor Patrick McGhee, who was himself a white, working class boy, believes David Willetts is right that more poorer white males should go to university. But he suggests financial help and advice,...
View ArticleWhy shouldn’t we help white, working-class boys aim higher?
The Independent’s education editor Richard Garner believes David Willetts was right to raise the issue of persuading more white working class boys to apply to university. This is from the Independent…...
View ArticleUniversities told to reach out to primary school pupils
Universities are being told by the Office for Fair Access (Offa) to reach out to children as young as seven because it believes the work of widening university participation needs to begin with a...
View ArticleEthnic minority students ‘forced into medicine and law’ by parents
Teenagers from ethnic minority families are coming under excessive pressure from parents to push for medicine and law degrees at top universities, the Government’s higher education access tsar has...
View ArticleMore privately-educated pupils win university offers
More pupils from top private schools are winning places at elite universities despite a Government drive to widen access to higher education, according to research. This is from the Telegraph… More...
View ArticleState school pupils ‘get easier access to top universities’
Pupils from state schools are being admitted to top universities with lower A-level grades than their privately-educated peers, according to research. This is from the Telegraph… Figures show they are...
View ArticleSixth-form funding dip ‘could stymie’ talent, Gove warned
A funding dip for sixth-formers “could stymie” teachers’ efforts to cultivate talent, post-16 education experts have warned the education secretary. This is from the BBC… In a letter, associations...
View ArticleUniversity entry levels reach record 49% of young people in England
A record high level of 49% of young people in England are likely to enter higher education, according to the latest official estimates. This is from the BBC… These figures for 2011-12, before the...
View ArticleUniversities are right to accept state school students with lower grades
Private schools are threatening to boycott universities that positively discriminate? Bring it on, says Bristol University student and writer Sophie Padgett. This is from the Guardian… There’s a...
View ArticleTwo-thirds of pupils ‘alarmed by rising cost of a degree’
The Telegraph is reporting that universities will be forced to provide local schoolchildren with clear advice about the price of degree courses amid fears too many teenagers are being put off higher...
View ArticleSchools, not universities, need to assist poorer students
Reports suggest that universities are not doing enough to encourage poorer students to apply. But schools must help pupils seize access opportunities, argues Rozina Sabur, writing in the Telegraph…...
View ArticleStudent bursaries ‘failing to cut university drop-out rates’
More than £1.3 billion spent on student bursaries has failed to prevent poor teenagers dropping out of university, according to research reported in the Telegraph… A major study found that grants worth...
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