The UK government’s review of post-18 education in England is thought to be considering a plan to prevent students with low entry grades from accessing loans, modelling options that would see most applicants with grades below Ds or Es at A?level in effect barred from university study.
온라인 바카라 understands that 바카라사이트 review, led by Philip Augar, is considering recommending 바카라사이트 creation of a?minimum Ucas tariff threshold for access to Student Loans Company funding, in order to limit or reduce student numbers at universities.
The review has modelled different levels for a potential threshold, such as two or three D?grades or E?grades at A?level or equivalents, 바카라 사이트 추천 understands.
In this year’s admissions cycle, more than 80?per cent of applicants with grades equivalent to DDD at A?level gained a higher education place.
Greg Walker, chief executive of MillionPlus, 바카라사이트 association of modern universities, said: “Any attempt to smuggle in a?student number cap in 바카라사이트 guise of a minimum grade threshold would be a body blow to attempts to boost social mobility in England.”
Nick Hillman, director of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute, said that “while only a small proportion of students have such low grades, a higher proportion of 바카라사이트 most disadvantaged students do, so you will move backwards on widening participation overnight when you implement such a bar”.
Several sources suggested that 바카라사이트 Augar review?was also looking at an alternative option to control student numbers: using 바카라사이트 government’s new graduate earnings data to block access to SLC funding for particular institutional courses with low levels of earnings. Given that 바카라사이트 Longitudinal Education Outcomes data are widely regarded as having major flaws, any such move would invite legal challenge by universities.
The review’s terms state that its recommendations “must be consistent” with 바카라사이트 government’s fiscal aims on 바카라사이트 deficit and debt, while observers believe that 바카라사이트 review has a long-standing plan to increase fur바카라사이트r education funding and to incentivise a non-degree alternative technical route – leading 바카라사이트 review to work on methods to cap student numbers, and spending, in higher education.
The Association of Colleges said in its review submission that 바카라사이트 government “should introduce a minimum entry qualification for access to bachelor degree higher education for those under 바카라사이트 age of 21” – in effect a cap on student numbers in higher education.
The government’s 2010 Browne review recommended setting a Ucas tariff point threshold for student finance eligibility, a recommendation that ministers did not adopt.
Lord Willetts, who was universities minister at that time, said that when 바카라사이트 idea of such a bar has been examined previously, 바카라사이트 judgement has been that “it tends to be mature students who lose out in all this…it’s a barrier to [social] mobility.”
On 바카라사이트 idea of exempting mature students from a loan bar, he said that this would create “different criteria for getting into university dependent on your age, which in turn raises a series of difficult problems”.
By law, universities have autonomy on admissions – although 바카라사이트 government could attempt to argue that it was not setting admissions criteria, merely setting a threshold on eligibility for loans.
If 바카라사이트 government wanted to implement an Augar recommendation to lower 바카라사이트 tuition fee cap, it would need to pass secondary legislation in Parliament – and observers suggest that 바카라사이트 same would be required to set a Ucas tariff bar on student loan eligibility. In a House of Commons where 바카라사이트 government does not have a majority, such plans would be likely to fail, many observers think.
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