Manifesto idea #11: Summer Dolan

For more low-income students to enter higher education, they have to want to go to university in the first place. In my own experience, by the time university is being seriously discussed in the state school system you are well into secondary education, and often surrounded by a culture that sees academic effort as ‘uncool’. Low-income students, from a young age, need examples of people from similar backgrounds who have succeeded at university. More...