Education: Elitist, exclusive, too posh... but we're changing, says Bristol Bristol is one of six universities criticised for recruiting too many well heeled students from private schools. Now it is trying to attract more from disadvantaged state schools. By Lucy Hodges

From: The Independent - London | Date: October 12, 2000| Author: Lucy Hodges | Copyright information

Last week's official league tables, published at the start of the new academic year, had one or two universities smarting. But Bristol University - officially placed in the doghouse along with six other universities for failing to attract enough students from poor backgrounds - put its hands up. It was a fair cop, it said.

Amazingly, Bristol was deemed even more elitist than Oxford and Cambridge, being found wanting on all three indicators used to measure access (the percentage of tho...

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