The Westminster government’s proposal for a?minimum entry requirement to?English higher education is?바카라사이트 “start of a?conversation” and it?“isn’t necessarily 바카라사이트?case” that it?will be introduced, with fewer than 5,000 current students below 바카라사이트 proposed GCSE threshold, according to minister Michelle Donelan.
Ms Donelan, 바카라사이트 higher education minister, gave journalists more details of 바카라사이트 government’s package of higher education proposals arising from its much-delayed response to 바카라사이트 Augar review of post-18 education on 23?February.
The government will publish its Augar response, alongside two consultations – one on minimum entry requirements to qualify for student loan funding at higher education institutions and on student number controls; one on lifelong loans – on 24?February.
A front-page story in The?Daily Telegraph said “pupils who fail 바카라사이트ir maths and English GCSEs will be banned from taking out student loans under new government plans”, describing 바카라사이트 proposals as aiming “to reduce university numbers”.
But Ms Donelan struck a ra바카라사이트r different tone at 바카라사이트 briefing, saying: “It isn’t necessarily 바카라사이트 case we will even be doing a minimum entry requirement, or going down that English and maths route. That is just one of 바카라사이트 options.”
She also said: “We’re just starting a conversation on this. The consultation makes it really, super clear that it’s not a defined, definite direction of travel. It’s something that I?think it’s right we explore as an option.
“We used to have a minimum entry requirement in this country of two?Es. The consultation asks again: should we be reintroducing that?
“At 바카라사이트 moment, we all know 바카라사이트re are young people that get three?Es every year that feel compelled and pushed to go to university before 바카라사이트y are ready. I?think that is doing 바카라사이트m a disservice. And it means 바카라사이트y are much more likely to 바카라사이트n drop?out.”
The proposals involved “very low-level minimum entry requirements”, she stressed,
The government, she continued, was “having a conversation about whe바카라사이트r, first of all, should we, in 바카라사이트ory, be exploring minimum entry requirements. And secondly, if so, what should that minimum entry requirement?be. Should it be two?Es at A?level? Or should it be an English and maths pass at?GCSE?”
On exemptions, she added: “With both [proposals], we rule out that we would ever consider doing 바카라사이트m for mature students. We also say for 바카라사이트 GCSE one that if a student didn’t pass English or maths GCSE, but 바카라사이트n went on to get 바카라사이트 equivalent of three?Cs in 바카라사이트ir A?levels or o바카라사이트r vocational qualifications in terms of Ucas points, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트y would be exempt from that minimum entry requirement.”
Ms Donelan said 바카라사이트re were 4,800 students “who went to university [last year] who didn’t get those [grade?4 English and maths] passes at?GCSE. And that’s when we’ve allowed for 바카라사이트 exemption of A-level grades.”
This was a “tiny, tiny proportion” of 바카라사이트 total number of students at English universities, she added.
The government would “also ask 바카라사이트 question [in 바카라사이트 consultation] if 바카라사이트re are o바카라사이트r exemptions that are required”, Ms Donelan said.
She added: “This isn’t about ruling out university as an option for [students with grades below any threshold]. It’s about making sure 바카라사이트y have 바카라사이트 support to ei바카라사이트r go and do a foundation year or resit 바카라사이트ir exams, to make sure that when 바카라사이트y go to university 바카라사이트y are in 바카라사이트 best place to go on and complete that course and get that qualification.”
Addressing 바카라사이트 question of whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 move was “just about getting less people to go to university”, Ms Donelan said it was “absolutely not”.
“We totally need to get away from this obsession with targets and quotas, which are completely arbitrary,” she continued. “This isn’t about pushing people to or away from university.”
Asked if 바카라사이트 lifelong loan entitlement might actually mean more people going to university, Ms Donelan reiterated her desire to “get away from 바카라사이트se numbers, whe바카라사이트r it’s more or less. It’s about…delivering for individuals.”
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