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Thursday, 29 September 2011

Universities fail the poor

Since 2006, universities and colleges in the UK have been allowed to charge "top-up" fees – currently just over £3,000 a year – on the condition that they boost the proportion of their applicants who have been in care, come from low-income families or have disabilities.

But Cambridge, Bristol, Exeter, Durham and University College London are among 23 institutions that admit making insufficient progress in widening their mix of applicants in 2009-10.

In the case of Cambridge, only 12.6% of students in 2009-10 came from homes where the annual income is less than £25,000.

Read more here.

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