Oxbridge told to take more poor students

by E Wayne Ross on February 12, 2008

Telegraph:

Oxbridge told to take more poor students

Oxford and Cambridge came under criticism from the Government on Monday for failing to recruit enough working-class students.

Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, said just one in five students at the United Kingdom’s top 20 universities came from poor backgrounds.

But at Oxbridge the proportion plummets further still to just one in 10.