Vice-Chancellor slams govt.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S VICE-CHANCELLOR, Sir Colin Lucas has launched an attack on Charles Clarke's plans to increase the number of students from the poorest backgrounds. Writing in The Daily Mirror he claimed that Clarke's proposed "admissions tsar" would be a bar to academic excellence, and insisted that efforts must instead be focused upon encouraging the brightest students to apply.
He stated that the University's "search for outstanding talent must be tireless" and that the admissions process focused on merit, achievement and potential, maintaining that the interview method was the best way to assess this.
23rd Jan 2003