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Universities’ measures to recruit more students from “disadvantaged” backgrounds have resulted in almost half of students flagged as not coming from working class families.

Social mobility charity The Sutton Trust has produced a report warning that these positive discrimination measures have not succeeded in their goal of targeting less well-off students.

The report says Russell Group institutions may be handing out lower A-level offers to the wrong students, as one of the main measures of deprivation used is “conceptually flawed”.

Via UK Data Service