Newcastle University A100 2022 Entry

Extenuating circumstances are a different thing to widening participation and assessed under a different framework.

Do you have evidence for how much learning was lost at State schools compared to private ones?
Ethnic minorities are under-represented at uni - that is the definition of widening participation.
I, personally, cannot think of a much more disadvantage group than asylum seekers?

The issue I have is not with the provision of widening participation schemes, it is that they should not be left wide open to gaming the system, as I have discussed in earlier posts.

Under PARTNERS there is an overlap, if you check the eligibility criteria. Of course I don't have evidence to quantify lost learning during lockdown, but I have reason to beleive this from talking to people that I know and comparing at the time. I think private schools were under pressure to deliver because of the obvious fact that they were directly accountable to those who pay them - ie the parents.

I agree about that Ethnic minorities are under represented in some uni's like Oxford and Cambridge and perhaps others, but I don't think this is the case for medicine overall. The majority doctors that I have met and come accross in my entire life were from very diverse racial backgrounds. Which is correct. The point is I don't think that someone's race should give them an advantage.

Under PARTNERS there is an overlap, if you check the eligibility criteria. Of course I don't have evidence to quantify lost learning during lockdown, but I have reason to beleive this from talking to people that I know and comparing at the time. I think private schools were under pressure to deliver because of the obvious fact that they were directly accountable to those who pay them - ie the parents.

I agree about that Ethnic minorities are under represented in some uni's like Oxford and Cambridge and perhaps others, but I don't think this is the case for medicine overall. The majority doctors that I have met and come accross in my entire life were from very diverse racial backgrounds. Which is correct. The point is I don't think that someone's race should give them an advantage.

I can certainly say in our geographical area there was a huge discrepancy between the teaching delivered by state schools and private school and even more so with teacher assessed grades, with private school's awarding more A and A*. Pretty sure there will data to back the latter point.


Agree ethnic minorities are under-represented in higher education particularly the higher ranking universities. Also agree that medicine is a very racially diverse profession, large part of the diversity is due to foreign trained medics, rather than those who are british born or have been through the british schooling system so would and should qualify under WP.