Fair access: ‘We now have a metric based on individual pupil experience’
John Blake, the director for fair access and participation at the Office for Students, was quoted in the Telegraph this...
Read moreJohn Blake, the director for fair access and participation at the Office for Students, was quoted in the Telegraph this...
Read moreThe higher education regulator will ask universities to explain in detail how they define "disadvantaged students" in admissions, The Telegraph...
Read moreA record number of state-educated students will be admitted to Cambridge this autumn, The Times reports. The proportion of state-school...
Read moreAs it is the first time in a number of years that A-level results are based upon actual external exams,...
Read moreThe other day, a friend was telling me about his daughter’s recent briefing session for prospective students at the University...
Read moreIf Oxbridge discourages applications from independent schools it could result in a “brain drain” to US universities, ISC chair Barnaby...
Read moreA women-only Cambridge college has blocked independently educated sixth formers from entering an essay competition, The Times reports. Newnham College,...
Read moreWhat a furore. “Oxbridge to exclude private school pupils” shrieked the banner headlines, following an announcement by Professor Stephen Toope,...
Read moreComments by the vice chancellor of Cambridge University about reducing admissions from independent schools are “Trumpesque 'fake news'” and “social...
Read moreFifty students who have faced “severe personal disadvantage" or a disrupted education will be admitted onto a new Oxford University...
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