Oxford and Cambridge 'should be biased to poor'
Oxford and Cambridge should 'explicitly 差別する' against middle-class applicants with 最高の，を越す grades to 確実にする a diverse student intake, 研究員s （人命などを）奪う，主張する today.
The エリート universities give more places to pupils from 料金-支払う／賃金ing schools than their abilities 令状, they argue.
Their 報告（する）／憶測 calls for Oxbridge admissions staff to do more to 広げる the social mix of students. It says they should look beyond 'n arrow' academic 資格s to broader 可能性のある to 後継する at university.
King's College, Cambridge: 研究員s argue that the エリート universities give more places to pupils from 料金-支払う／賃金ing schools than their abilities 令状
The approach would help 追い散らす '耐えるing 疑惑s' the universities make course 申し込む／申し出s on the grounds of 'social elitism' rather than a 本物の しっかり掴む of 候補者s' 可能性のある.
にもかかわらず taking a higher 割合 of pupils with strings of A grades at A-level than other universities, it is not （疑いを）晴らす that Oxford and Cambridge are taking the 'brightest' - those with the greatest academic 可能性のある, says the 報告（する）／憶測 by the Higher Education 政策 学校／設ける.
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The finding will 強める 圧力 on Oxbridge and other 最高の，を越す universities to introduce 議論の的になる ' 肯定的な 差別' admissions 政策s.
商売／仕事 長官 Lord Mandelson has already 開始する，打ち上げるd a review of admission 政策s at エリート universities after 警告 that youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds are '除外するd' by 現在の approaches.
Many more could in 未来 be given a '長，率いる start' of two or more grades at A-level.
But critics 恐れる that universities will be 軍隊d to 訴える手段／行楽地 to 天然のまま 'social 工学' and sideline deserving middle-class applicants to 補償する for the failings of 最初の／主要な and 第２位 schools.
Oxford and Cambridge are の中で those universities 説 they already look at 使用／適用s in ' 状況' to identify 優れた attainment 親族 to 適切な時期.
But the HEPI's 報告（する）／憶測 示唆するs they should do more to 治療（薬） their 'socially skewed' intakes.
It pointed to 人物／姿／数字s showing that nearly half of entrants to Oxford and Cambridge - 43 per cent - （機の）カム from 私的な schools in 2007/08, even though the schools educate just 10 per cent of sixth-formers.
研究員s Juliet Chester and Bahram Bekhradnia 示唆する that universities should follow the lead of U.S. Ivy League 会・原則s and '捜し出す explicitly to 達成する a better social mix' in their student 団体／死体s.
