Top Scottish university says poorer students don't make the grade

St Andrews

not blame the inequalities admission policy after criticism for its low consumption of private student

one of the best universities in the United Kingdom found that only two or three of the 100 graduates of the most deprived areas of Scotland are getting good enough grades for places in elite universities.

University of St Andrews

said he believed that the biggest obstacle for children from disadvantaged backgrounds are the best universities had long-term poverty and lack of social support and the education at an early age.

Professor Louise Richardson, director of St Andrews, said his analysis suggests only 200-300 adolescents neighborhoods receive the results to arrive at St Andrews. Recent reviews of NUS Scotland was unfair and too simplistic, he said. The student union said the university had a "terrible" record when it emerged that he had accepted only 13 people in disadvantaged areas.

"It is a highly selective universities who have no interest in attracting children from poor families," said Richardson. "Quite the contrary. Problem is that very few children from disadvantaged backgrounds meet our entry requirements. Either huge pain to try to attract them. "

NUS Scotland

revealed that in 2011 only 13 students of all ages, from the most deprived areas of Scotland won places at St Andrews, which amounts to 2.7% of the places where there. Only 91 points earned in Edinburgh (5% of all students) in Aberdeen with 51 (3.1%).

NUS Scotland

data did not show a lot of poor teenagers all have the skills to get to St Andrews, or being highly competitive elite, such as law or medicine. Unlike England, the Scottish Government does not publish detailed data on the levels achieved by children from different social classes.

Ranked best universities in Scotland, St. Andrews requires three Highers - A Scottish-year basis, which corresponds roughly to A-levels -. As the minimum entry requirement

St Andrews

conducted its own analysis and found that 200 to 300 of the 11,000 adolescents from the poorest 20% of neighborhoods Scotland who left school with three A in 2011. In comparison, the 5555 students from all social groups reached these levels in 2011.

St Andrews says the best universities in the United Kingdom fierce competition with each other to attract the best performers from poor backgrounds: they are much more likely to provide places for St Andrews most money rich.

St Andrews said Richardson

recently increased its scholarships and grants, and to the summer school. Some scholarships established for these candidates became vacant because the candidates were not there.

• "This is a much more complex problem," he said. "This annual cycle of universities criticized for not having enough children to nowhere. Admit we do not want children and put them to fail. We can not accept children who have a reasonable expectation of success here ".

Robin Parker, president of NUS Scotland, said the figures do not know St Andrews, but said he needed to be "realistic."

"Of course, Scotland has deeply rooted problems of poverty, and nobody asks universities to solve all the ills of society. However, that universities can not do everything, does not mean You can not do that anymore, "he said.

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