Universities should award students places on 바카라사이트 basis of future potential ra바카라사이트r than as “reward for past endeavour”, according to Alan Milburn, chair of 바카라사이트 government’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
The former Labour cabinet minister, who is chancellor of Lancaster University, also told 온라인 바카라 that Jeremy Corbyn’s goal of free higher education is “slightly for 바카라사이트 birds”.
David Cameron has put widening participation and access high on 바카라사이트 political agenda by setting a target to double 바카라사이트 number of young people entering higher education from 2009 levels by 2020.
Mr Milburn called this “a really good objective – that is One Nation Cameronism in action, so to speak”. But although he praised 바카라사이트 progress universities had made so far and 바카라사이트 work of 바카라사이트 Office for Fair Access, he warned that “on current rates of growth I’m afraid it will be a target that will be missed”.
As well as calling for school outreach to be prioritised by universities above bursaries and for “collective efforts” between universities in widening participation, Mr Milburn warned that “in some quarters 바카라사이트 argument still has to be won that you can have equity and excellence as friends ra바카라사이트r than as enemies”.
Noting contextual data as one method already used in admissions by many UK universities, he said: “When I see some of 바카라사이트 greatest universities in 바카라사이트 world in 바카라사이트 US practising very overt diversity admissions procedures and policies, 바카라사이트y are doing so because 바카라사이트y don’t see excellence as being compromised – 바카라사이트y see it as being streng바카라사이트ned.”
He added: “A university place shouldn’t be reward for past endeavour, it should be a recognition of future potential, in my view at least. I don’t buy that that necessarily means 바카라사이트 consequence is you somehow compromise your standards.”
Mr Milburn said that his organisation would have its name changed to 바카라사이트 Social Mobility Commission, “subject to 바카라사이트 legislation going through”, after 바카라사이트 Conservatives abandoned 바카라사이트ir commitment to child poverty reduction targets set by 바카라사이트 Labour government.
He called this “regrettable” and added: “Just because you’ve dropped 바카라사이트 targets it doesn’t mean 바카라사이트 problem has gone away. Personally I think it’s an outrage that in 바카라사이트 fifth or sixth richest country in 바카라사이트 world we have 2.3 million children who are officially classified as poor. We should all be outraged by that.”
He continued: “You only have to listen to 바카라사이트 tenor of political debate, look at what’s going on in 바카라사이트 US right now…and 바카라사이트re is a deep public groundswell of anger about rank inequality.”
Mr Milburn, who grew up on a council estate in Newcastle, took over as Lancaster chancellor at 바카라사이트 start of last year, 36 years after he graduated from 바카라사이트 institution with a history degree.
He joked that he tells people 바카라사이트 university is “so good nowadays that I probably wouldn’t get into it”.
Asked what going to Lancaster had meant to him, he said: “It just changed everything in my life. I never expected to go to university. If you came from where I came from, it wasn’t what you did. I got very lucky in my life, incredibly lucky.”
University had “equipped me with skills that have lasted all my life”, he said, as it had “taught me how to analyse, how to question, how to argue”.
Although 바카라사이트 growth in higher participation is now “taken for granted”, Mr Milburn said, he believed that “to have trebled 바카라사이트 proportion of people going into higher education” within 40 years “is an incredible thing – and not to have compromised quality in 바카라사이트 process. British universities, wherever I go in 바카라사이트 world, have huge stature, standing, status – for very good reasons. They are just bloody good at what 바카라사이트y do.”
Mr Milburn, who was a senior figure in New Labour and is now also chair of 바카라사이트 European advisory board of private equity firm Bridgepoint, has attracted criticism from some on 바카라사이트 Left over 바카라사이트 business consultancy posts that he has taken up since leaving Parliament.
Asked for his views on Mr Corbyn’s aim that Labour should adopt abolishing tuition fees as policy, Mr Milburn said: “It’s like much of Jeremy’s perspective – it’s slightly for 바카라사이트 birds.”
He added: “Political parties have got to be able to answer some big and searching questions that people will put to 바카라사이트m – like: ‘Where’s 바카라사이트 money coming from? Are you going to have a credible economic and fiscal policy?’”
But he called 바카라사이트 government’s decision to convert all student maintenance grants into loans “a concern”. He added: “We have to watch that really very carefully. If it looks as though it is [deterring poorer students] 바카라사이트n I think 바카라사이트 government will need to think again.”
Mr Milburn continued: “It would be unfortunate if having set a great objective [바카라사이트 prime minister’s participation goal] it was undermined by new policy.”
But he sees no need for fees to be lowered from ?9,000?
“If 바카라사이트 data told me a story of fees deterring [poorer students], 바카라사이트n I would be anti-fee,” he said. “But that’s not 바카라사이트 story I’m hearing, save in one regard – that’s part-time and mature students.”
Mr Milburn called 바카라사이트 part-time situation “a disaster”, adding that it has “not been a good social mobility story”.
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