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Higher education statistics confirm outstanding contribution of modern universities to social mobility and call for value-added measures to assess university performance
19 July 2007
Professor Les Ebdon, Chair of the CMU Universities Group and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire said “These statistics are useful reminders of the outstanding contribution of modern universities to social mobility. There would be real merit in developing value-added performance indicators which reflect the diversity of the student profile and take into account mode of study, age and other socio-economic factors.”
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