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Higher Education and Research Bill

My Lords, may I request that the Minister reassures us that, when we talk about access, the Bill covers diversity and, in particular, ethnic minority children and students coming to universities? I saw the importance of this for myself at Cambridge University, when we started a summer course called GEEMA. The ethnic minority students who attended the course came primarily from families who had no previous university experience. I remember giving out the certificates for one of the first courses, when 60 students from all over the country attended and were mentored by ethnic minority undergraduate students already at the university. Of the 60, many not only went on to university, but went on to the University of Cambridge. Programmes such as this are very effective; are we doing enough to promote that access through the Bill?

5.15 pm

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Reference

777 c1982 

Session

2016-17

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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