PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Higher Education: Admissions (12 January 2015)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Rebecca Harris (Conservative)
Answer
In the annual grant letters to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Government has made it clear that widening participation is a priority. Overall investment in widening participation through the Student Opportunity Fund and other sources increased from £977m in 2012-13 to £1,129m in 2014-15.
Information from UCAS for the 2014 application cycle shows that the entry rate for the most disadvantaged has risen by 10% proportionately to 18.2%, the highest ever, making disadvantaged young people in England a third more likely to enter university in 2014 than five years ago.
Answered by:
Greg Clark (Conservative)
19 January 2015
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