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Deputy PM calls for universities to widen access
- 09th February 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is to demand later this week that universities must widen access, and better opportunities must be available to state school pupils.
He believes universities have become “instruments of social segregation”.
The government is pushing for institutions who want to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees to widen access to pupils from state schools amid concerns about the disparity between the number of privately educated pupils and the intake at Oxbridge universities and other selective universities.
Simon Hughes, government adviser on access to higher education, has said universities should drastically limit their intake of privately educated pupils to reflect the proportion in society.
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