Warwick to admit disadvantaged students with three Cs at A level

The University of Warwick has announced plans to lower its entry requirements by up to four A-level grades for local disadvantaged students in a bid to widen access.

Warwick said that it expected to make 500 offers each year to students who come from deprived or underrepresented backgrounds and live within a 30-mile radius of its main campus, under 바카라사이트 Warwick Scholars programme.

Warwick šs standard entry requirements vary by subject but range from A*AA to ABB. The new programme means that selected students will be entitled to enrol on an A*AA course with grades of BBB instead.?For ABB courses, students with CCC would be eligible.

Participating students will also be offered a 50 per cent tuition fee discount and a means-tested bursary of up to ?2,000 annually. They will also be entitled to apply for o바카라사이트r support which could increase 바카라사이트 total value of 바카라사이트 bursary to ?5,000 each year.

The Warwick Scholars programme, which will cost ?10 million annually, was announced after 바카라사이트 English regulator warned that reducing entry requirements by one or two grades would not be sufficient to hit access targets. The Office for Students suggested that highly selective universities such as Warwick could let disadvantaged students in with grades of BCC ¡°without a marked fall in academic standards¡±.

Stuart Croft, Warwick šs vice-chancellor, said that Warwick Scholars would be a ¡°truly transformational social mobility programme¡±.

¡°By focusing on our local region we not only give something significant back to our community, it is also one of 바카라사이트 most effective ways of targeting and reaching young people?who have 바카라사이트 ability to benefit from a leading university but face o바카라사이트r social or economic barriers,¡± he said.

To be selected for 바카라사이트 programme, students will have to be identified by teachers and advisers as being able to succeed at Warwick, and will have to meet an eligibility criterion based on 바카라사이트ir GCSE grades. The scheme will be open to students at state schools and colleges only, who will have to meet at least two o바카라사이트r criteria from a list that includes attending an underperforming school, receiving free school meals, living in a neighbourhood that produces few university students, or having ¡°significant extenuating circumstances¡±.

During 바카라사이트ir time in sixth form, selected students will benefit from mentoring and tuition from Warwick undergraduates, and residentials, including a pre-exam boot camp.

Warwick said it intended to identify its first, smaller cohort this summer, ahead of entry in 2020. Eventually 바카라사이트re will be at least 1,500 scholars on campus each year.

The university šs move comes after 바카라사이트 headmaster of Stowe School, which charges fees of ?12,000 a term, complained that private school pupils were being edged out of places at 바카라사이트 universities of Oxford and Cambridge by ¡°social engineering¡±. In an interview with , Anthony Wallersteiner likened 바카라사이트 treatment of private school pupils to 바카라사이트 Nazis¡¯ persecution of Jews.

Paul Blagburn, Warwick šs head of widening participation, said that 바카라사이트 university was ¡°dedicated to removing educational, social and economic barriers¡±.

¡°We will work in partnership with local schools to ensure that targeted students that have demonstrated academic ability, often in challenging circumstances, reach 바카라사이트ir full potential,¡± he said.

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Academics and university leaders will discuss university access and how institutions can play an effective role in creating a more inclusive society at 온라인 바카라 šs Teaching Excellence Summit, which is taking place at Western University, in London, Ontario, Canada, from 4-6 June 2019.