If the government is planning to bar students without three D’s at A-level from loans, it is ignoring the value of life experience
The most recent “leak” to have emerged from the government’s Augar review of post-18 education suggests that students who have obtained less than DDD at A-level will be barred from accessing government loans. University leaders have criticised the plan as a backwards step for social mobility, particularly for BAME students. The students such a move would affect disproportionately, however, are mature students.
When mature students return to education they usually have valuable work and life experience, which puts them in an excellent position to benefit from the opportunities that higher education offers them. Not only are they able to approach subjects through the lens of their own experience, they also enrich learning for younger students by contributing the knowledge and skills they have gained through work to the classroom.
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