Sometimes your professors make you busy." Foreign students not only give schools more applicants to choose from, they also provide money.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

In his letter to Mr Brown, the education secretary says the level of bursaries on offer could make some students from lower income backgrounds even better off on the very best courses.

BBC: Students have continually opposed the plans

Today students make progress from concept to concept regardless of how much effort they expend and how well they do.

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This is known as using contextual data and can mean admissions tutors make lower offers for students from state schools than for those from independent schools.

BBC: Top students expansion plan 'could hit social mobility'