Proceeding contribution from Lord Butler of Brockwell (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 28 June 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Higher Education White Paper.
Higher Education White Paper
If I heard the Minister aright, he said that the purpose of strengthening the role of OFFA would be to ensure that the universities fulfilled their obligations about outreach. That will create no difficulties for the universities because I am convinced that all the universities I know want to widen the area of society from which they draw children of talent. However, he also said, if I heard him correctly, that there will be no interference in the academic freedom to make that selection on the basis of merit. Can he therefore assure us that the quotas that have been talked about for students to be drawn from different areas of society or different backgrounds in education will not now be pursued?
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