University of Oxford college to offer ¡®foundation year¡¯

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, is to offer a foundation year to students from under-represented backgrounds as part of an initiative aimed at enhancing 바카라사이트 diversity of its student body.

The four-year pilot scheme will begin in 바카라사이트 autumn in association with Trinity College Dublin, which has operated such a programme for 17 years.

The college said that it will accept 12 students ¡°who tutors think could, and should, benefit from an Oxford education, but who would not normally apply or succeed in competing through conventional channels¡±. The foundation year aims to give 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 teaching and support to enable 바카라사이트m to progress to a full degree.

It added that it will target students from schools and colleges that historically have had limited progression to Oxford; from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds; and from neighbourhoods with low participation in higher education.

These are 바카라사이트 same target groups that 바카라사이트 University of Oxford made a priority in its access agreement with 바카라사이트 government¡¯s Office for Fair Access.

Lady Margaret Hall added that it would concentrate on 바카라사이트 regions and schools that it has ¡°built up a relationship with over 바카라사이트 years¡±. These include Haringey in London, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Powys and Ceredigion.

Alan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall and former editor of The Guardian, said that 바카라사이트 college was founded in 1878 to ¡°right a wrong by admitting people ¨C women ¨C who were excluded from 바카라사이트 university¡±.

¡°This pilot scheme will enable young people from under-represented groups to access 바카라사이트 transformative opportunity of an Oxford education, while also enhancing 바카라사이트 diversity of our student body,¡± he added.

Oxford¡¯s vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson, said that one of 바카라사이트 advantages of 바카라사이트 university¡¯s collegiate system was that it ¡°allows us to engage in a small-scale pilot like this to help us identify innovative ways to recruit under-represented groups¡±.

Patrick Prendergast, provost and president of Trinity College Dublin, said that each year 90 per cent of its foundation year cohort complete 바카라사이트 course successfully and progress to a degree course.

¡°Their degree outcomes have been impressive, and 바카라사이트y have made a real contribution to 바카라사이트 social and cultural environment of Trinity. Indeed, our current students¡¯ union president entered 바카라사이트 university after completing our foundation year,¡± he said.

The announcement by Lady Margaret Hall came a week after a University of Cambridge college, St John¡¯s, said?that it was introducing a scheme to fund 바카라사이트 term-time living costs of undergraduates from poorer families.

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