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UK: Bursaries 'not attracting poorer students', says report
23.09.2010
Bursaries are failing to attract students from less privileged backgrounds to England's leading universities, research shows. A report by the Office for Fair Access says outreach work would be a more effective use of funds.
It found that a higher proportion of students from poorer backgrounds were attending universities with lower levels of bursary.
The report says: "Since the introduction of bursaries, disadvantaged young people - who would be more likely to qualify for bursaries - have increased their participation most rapidly in the third of institutions that offer lower bursaries.
"There have been only small increases for disadvantaged participation in the higher bursary third of institutions and overall young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are no more likely to enter these institutions today than in the mid-1990s.
"The participation trends do not suggest that the higher bursaries on offer at some institutions have had a material effect on the participation rate of disadvantaged young people in those institutions."
Universities UK said universities needed greater autonomy over financial aid.
"The current bursary system should be replaced with an approach whereby universities are free to develop their own financial aid policies, within the context of an overall strategy to widen participation," a spokesman said.
"This would ensure institutions are able to target resources more effectively in both access and outreach activities and financial aid initiatives to support fee waivers or higher bursaries."
General secretary of the University and College Union, Sally Hunt, said the bursary system as it stood was "confusing and unfair".
She said: "We need a simplified national system so that the universities doing the most to attract students from low-income backgrounds can offer them strong financial support.
"It is clearly over-simplistic to suggest that it is the size of bursaries alone that determine students' choices and we accept there are complex other social factors that come into play, but those universities currently not attracting low-income students must step up their efforts to increase awareness of what they offer."
Source: BBC News
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