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Unis' 'little progress' in recruits

England's top universities have made "little or no headline progress" in recruiting students from poorer families in recent years, a watchdog has warned.

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Universities must get 'smarter with investment'

In his forward to the OFFA report on top universities failing to recruit from poorer families, Professor Ebdon said most universities had met or exceeded the targets they had set for themselves, to recruit more students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

But he added that the picture as a whole was "not positive", with most universities making "little or no progress". He said:

Universities and colleges must get smarter in their investment if we are to maintain the improved participation from disadvantaged groups to the sector as a whole and start to close the unacceptably large participation gap between advantaged and disadvantaged people that remains at our most selective universities.

Where you come from is still much too closely related to where you will end up, and universities and colleges have a vital role in helping change this.

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Unis' 'little progress' in recruits

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