A new
report from the NUS.
Findings
- At current rates it would take 40 years to reach fair and representative access in Scotland.
- Across Scotland, for every one student from the most deprived
background recruited to university, there are 2.5 students from the
least deprived background. However, at our institutions with the worst
records on widening access (Edinburgh, Aberdeen and St Andrews), the
ratio reaches 1 to 16.4 of most deprived to least deprived. At St
Andrews the ratio reaches 1:28.
- It is by no means the rule that deprivation levels dictate
participation rates, with many constituencies with high levels of
deprivation with good records in terms of sending pupils to HE and vice
versa.
# posted by Philip Wadler @ 2:37 PM
