By John Morgan
Social class ‘still biggest predictor of university attendance post-Robbins report’, conferences hear
Times Higher Education - 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.
Professor
Vignoles said that the higher education participation rate for people
with backgrounds in manual occupations was about 4 per cent at the time
of Robbins in 1963, whereas by the year 2000 it was about 20 per cent – a
“massive” rise.
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