Andrew Denholm cited our Access in Scotland research in a page one story for the Herald on university access.

SCOTLAND’ S most prestigious universities will have to significantly reduce entry grades for high demand courses such as medicine and law to ensure more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds secure places.

The country’s new fair access commissioner said unless Ancient institutions such as St Andrews, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow reduced grades for poorer students inherent unfairness within higher education would continue.

A recent report by the Sutton Trust found Scottish 18-year-olds from the most advantaged areas were more than four times more likely to go straight to university than those from the most deprived areas, the worst record in the UK.

And although opportunities for disadvantaged students in Scotland is getting better, official data shows 90 per cent of the improvement is because of the expansion of sub-degree programmes in colleges.

Read the full report here