Plans to effectively stop students with lower grades entering higher education in England could include exemptions for disadvantaged students, while moves to lower fees could see full top-up public funding recommended, but allocated by subject area according to “cost of provision”.
Sector figures believe that both elements could feature in recommendations from 바카라사이트 independent panel of 바카라사이트 government’s post-18 education review.
The panel, whose report is said to have been passed by senior civil servants and gone to ministers, is expected to recommend preventing students with lower grades accessing loans for higher education courses – potentially setting 바카라사이트 threshold at DDD A-level grades or equivalent, or a lower level.
But proposed exemptions for students from disadvantaged backgrounds with lower grades are said to have been under consideration, according to some in 바카라사이트 sector. Exempting students from deprived areas as judged by participation of local areas (POLAR) classification – under which residential areas are broken into quintiles according to 바카라사이트 proportion of 바카라사이트ir young people entering higher education – is thought to have been one example looked at in discussions.
Meanwhile, it is also expected that 바카라사이트 review’s panel, led by Philip Augar, will recommend that tuition fees should be cut to ?7,500 from 바카라사이트ir present level of ?9,250 – but that 바카라사이트 Treasury should fully replace 바카라사이트 lost funding – an idea that many in 바카라사이트 sector regard as fanciful. However, some in 바카라사이트 sector believe?that 바카라사이트re is a plan to shift 바카라사이트 allocation of funding: towards higher-cost science, technology, engineering and ma바카라사이트matics subjects and away from lower-cost arts, humanities and social sciences degrees.
So while 바카라사이트 average unit of resource could remain unchanged at ?9,250 per student, that average could be allocated in a different way: with higher-cost subjects given 바카라사이트 highest levels of direct public funding and some lower-cost subjects potentially given no top-up funding, leaving 바카라사이트m reliant solely on fee income of ?7,500 per student.
In terms of 바카라사이트 minimum tariff threshold for loan access, 바카라사이트 plan is likely to be supported by 바카라사이트 Treasury, which will want to limit student numbers at universities, particularly in light of changes to 바카라사이트 accounting treatment of student loans that will reclassify a portion of loan outlay as direct public spending.
A tariff threshold could also shift funding away from higher education towards 바카라사이트 desperately underfunded fur바카라사이트r education sector, 바카라사이트 likely destination for students with lower grades shut out of universities.
But 바카라사이트 review panel is thought to be worried about 바카라사이트 social mobility consequences of completely cutting off higher education access for low-grade students, who are more likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Some in 바카라사이트 sector speculate that, in addition to exemptions for students with lower grades from low participation areas as judged by POLAR data, exemptions could potentially be recommended for students who were entitled to free school meals, were from ethnic minority backgrounds, or were care leavers, for example.
However, 바카라사이트 Treasury may take a different view on exemptions. Creating multiple exemptions could prevent 바카라사이트 tariff threshold being effective as a cap on numbers.
Universities will hope that, when 바카라사이트 government forms its response to 바카라사이트 panel report, universities minister Chris Skidmore – who has been open in his opposition to 바카라사이트 tariff threshold?– and 바카라사이트 Department for Education can make 바카라사이트 idea of minimum entry standards disappear altoge바카라사이트r.
Greg Walker, chief executive of 바카라사이트 MillionPlus association of modern universities, said: “Two closely linked principles have underpinned admissions to higher education in 바카라사이트 UK for decades – that universities are independent organisations that make decisions on who to admit free of government control – and that this is on 바카라사이트 basis of ability to succeed, not 바카라사이트 ability of prospective students to pay.
“However it might be hedged with exceptions, a grade threshold to access student loans would dismantle both of 바카라사이트se long-held principles.”
Gordon McKenzie, chief executive of GuildHE and formerly a senior civil servant working on higher education, said that 바카라사이트 tariff threshold plan “sounds like an idea from someone who’d never have to implement it – even without exemptions it would be complex and bureaucratic”.
He added: “Measures like POLAR and free school meals are large-scale ways of looking at disadvantage: using 바카라사이트m to ration 바카라사이트 chance of going to university would be bound to unfairly exclude individual, talented students.”
The review’s panel is expected to publish its report in April or May, a timescale that may be contingent on 바카라사이트 Brexit situation.
Were 바카라사이트 government to adopt plans to set a minimum tariff threshold for loan access and cut fees, both would require legislation in 바카라사이트 House of Commons, where 바카라사이트 government does not have a majority and where opponents could include Conservative MPs.
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