UCAS blames Northern schools for lack of ‘aspiration and attainment’
The head of UCAS has said this week that fewer students in the north are applying to university than the rest of England because of ‘school aspiration and attainment’ in the region.
Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of the admissions body, said that teachers needed to instil ‘aspiration’ in their pupils by talking to them about university as early as primary school.
Figures published by UCAS this month revealed that the proportion of young people applying to higher education in 2018 has reached a record high, with 37.4% of English 18-year-olds applying by the admission body’s January deadline – a 0.4 percentage point increase on last year.
Read the full article in the Tes.
This has caused quite a stir with Heads in the North East! Read Alan Hardie’s, Principal at Whitburn Church of England Academy, response in this week’s Talking Head.