Access to undergraduate medical education is being broadened

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7284.495

BMJ 2001;322:495 ( 24 February )

Letters

Access to undergraduate medical education is being broadened

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EDITOR $---$ Sheffield is not alone in making plans for the development of schemes to widen access to higher education as discussedby Angel and Johnson.¹ The City of Glasgow incorporates asmuch as 60% of the areas of greatest deprivation in the UnitedKingdom. The number of school leavers from the west of Scotlandwho enter higher education is about half the national average(28.3% compared with 48% for higher education and 16% comparedwith 29.5% for university admission) and in extreme cases participationrates in higher education are as low as 4%. ² ³ In addition,although the proportion of young people in Scotland participatingin higher education rose to 48%, that from underrepresented socioeconomicgroups was only 15%.

The GOALS (Greater Opportunity of Access and Learning with Schools) project aims to widen access to higher education in thewest of Scotland. It provides a spectrum of opportunity for school. . . [Full text of this article]