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Targets for low-income and from schools poor examination results

  • 1.  Targets for low-income and from schools poor examination results

    Posted 01-18-2003 06:14
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    Philip Webster and Tony Halpin, "Universities will get right to charge
    £3,000: Top-up fees can triple if poor students are offered more places,"
    Times [London], January 18, 2003.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-546588,00.html

    Universities will have to provide better access for working class youngsters
    in return for the right to charge higher fees under Tony Blair’s higher
    education funding plans which will be announced next week.
    The Times has learnt that next week’s White Paper on tuition fees will give
    universities the right to charge students up to £3,000 a year, to be repaid
    after graduation. But it will also propose the appointment of a senior
    figure to ensure that poorer pupils can enter elite institutions.
    The “access regulator”, to be announced by Charles Clarke, the Education
    Secretary, will draw up agreements with universities requiring them to
    improve their records for taking students from poorer backgrounds