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Higher Education (Access)

Volume 296: debated on Thursday 26 June 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proposals he has to improve access to higher education for young people from low-income families. [4109]

We are committed to widening opportunities for all individuals to fulfil their potential and we shall be considering very carefully what the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education has to say about improving the under-representation of lower socio-economic and certain other groups in higher education.