A Cambridge academic has criticised Government plans to stop pupils without a Grade 4 GCSE pass in maths and English from securing student loans, arguing that universities need to be “more imaginative” when assessing students’ potential.
Michael Hrebeniak, director of studies in English at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, said that the Government’s Augar review of higher education funding in England, published on Thursday, is “proscribed by expressly financial prerogatives” and that “its mental universe is money”.
