Cuts to scholarship funding will hit entry to higher schooling. Photograph: John Harper/Corbis
The government’s choice to scale down its personal significantly heralded pupil scholarship scheme has amazed several of us (Report, 23 November). Yes, we knew cuts had been coming since of the absence of controls in excess of pupil amount development outdoors universities and via the determination to preserve the science and research budget. We knew the cuts would target on reducing pupil mobility by disinvestment in accessibility measures. We knew it was very likely that the poorer in society would most likely be hit the hardest. The surprise has been the response of the independent regulator, the Workplace for Honest Accessibility. Offa is there to safeguard and market honest entry to greater training. So what does it do when the government decreases the sum publicly committed to scholarships by 66%, halfway via an admissions cycle, when almost 200,000 students have utilized on the basis of the considerably vaunted access agreements? It does not inquire universities what they believe, it does not ask the applicants it is supposed to be safeguarding. Offa simply says it could have been worse. Should not it, as an independent entire body, be standing up for college students?
Geoff Layer
Vice-chancellor, University of Wolverhampton
Fair access to higher education | @guardianletters
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