Poorest pupils face access ‘postcode lottery’ as progress stalls

What Captain Louis Renault said.

It’s hardly a “lottery” when it’s this predictable is it? It’s more correctly termed postcode discrimination: •Systemic, reflecting poorer educational opportunities and a range of other societal disadvantages dumped on children in low income families, particularly those living in areas of blanket socioeconomic deprivation •Institutional, eg ridiculous admission scoring systems giving points for, eg, grade 8 music; DoE Gold; quality of work experience; beautifully written personal statements; and a host of other outcomes mostly inaccessible to children from low income homes •Direct discrimination arising out of prejudicial attitudes amongst university staff towards these students. Whether it arises from out-and-out classism or unconscious bias the outcome for the applicants is the same - failure.