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Education: Selection, Selection, Selection

by | 20th, January 2008

SIR Martin, director of the Office for Fair Access (Offa), is responsible for ensuring that higher education is open to students from less privileged backgrounds.

He tells the Telegraph: “We will never go back to selection…”

Although, as the paper notes: “Potential Oxbridge students should be identified at 11 and given special mentoring throughout their school years to help them compete for a place, the Government’s access tsar has proposed.”

So, no going back to selection, then..?



Posted: 20th, January 2008 | In: Broadsheets Comment | TrackBack | Permalink