It could take a century to hit the latest official university access targets.

UNIVERSITY & college admission; SOCIAL mobility; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; HIGHER education; MAJOR, Lee Elliot

The article discusses the Higher Education Policy Institute's report "Social Mobility and Elite Universities," by Lee Elliot Major and Pallavi Amitava Banerjee, about access to higher education. Topics discussed include the report's conclusion that it will take almost a century to achieve the Office for Students targets for access to highly-selective universities and recommendations including more contextualized admissions and random allocation of places.