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Rich-poor higher education gap 'wider than in 1963'

31 October 2013

Increasing the number of poorer students in higher education has not proved to be the ''great social leveller'' that it was expected to be in the Robbins era. That was the argument set out by Anna Vignoles, professor of education at the University of Cambridge, at a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Robbins report held at the London School of Economics on 22 October. Lord Robbins was head of the economics department at the LSE at the time his report was published.

The article was published in The Times Higher Education on October 31, 2013
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Related links
Anna Vignoles webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage
Centre for the Economics of Education website
Anna Vignoles CEP publications webpage

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