Simon Hughes: universities should limit private school intake
Top universities should be forced to restrict the number of private school pupils they admit so that their intake reflects society as a whole, Simon Hughes has said.
The Liberal Democrat deputy leader, who was recently appointed the government’s adviser on access to higher education, said institutions had “failed miserably” to take on a fair proportion of state school students.
He said that from 2012, when they are eligible to charge up to £9,000 a year in fees, universities who demand students pay at least £6,000 should have to tackle the admissions gap and raised the prospect that admissions criteria could be altered to force them to co-operate.
Any move to introduce quotas would be interpreted by some universities as an attack on their academic independence, and face strong resistance.
Mr Hughes, who was himself educated at private schools in Wales and at Selwyn College, Cambridge, said measures ought to be added to the statute book by the beginning of the next academic year.
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