Increasing Accessibility to Oxbridge

Increasing Accessibility to Oxbridge

Together with The Wilberforce Society in Cambridge, the team at OxPolicy have created these reports into the highly relevant issue of accessibility to Oxford and Cambridge, for low income, disadvantaged and minority applicants. Our three papers are:

1. Racial inequalities in UK higher education: qualitative research into the under-representation of BME students at Oxford

2. Widening access to Oxbridge: An exploration of obstacles for underrepresented groups and efforts to overcome them

3. Contextual admissions: a method of improving accessibility to Oxbridge? Examining current policy, national trends and attitudes to contextual data

Acknowledgements:

This paper was written by a team of Oxford University Students for OxPolicy, in collaboration with The Wilberforce Society, Cambridge. The Research Co-ordinators of the three papers are, in order, Kristine Gorgen, Agnes Ebenberger, and George Gillet. Researchers for paper 1. are Dorkina Myrick and Cloé Ragot. Researchers for paper 2. are Ana Maria Marciel Groarke, Clare Hyde, Shalini John, Lydia McLaren, Lakshmi Neelakantan, Alexandra Paterson, Miranda Ryan and Emily Wu. Researchers for paper 3. are Daniel Berg, Ceinwen Bowen, Matthew Kirtley, Paul Ritchie, Heather Stevens and Chloe Walker.

This paper was written by a team of Oxford University Students for OxPolicy, in collaboration with The Wilberforce Society, Cambridge. Operational support was provided by the Research Director Natascha Eichinger and committee members, Rachael Midlen and Rosa Von Gleichen.

In addition, we thank the Oxford Hub for their continued support of OxPolicy.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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