Headmaster of Ipswich School and Co-Chair of HMC/GSA Universities Committee, the only national body bringing together secondary heads and top HEIs
Ipswich, England
Joined September 2012
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Nick Weaver retweeted
Getting social mobility right is complicated - let’s not forget that 30% of the most disadvantaged students at Oxford have come via free places in independent schools buff.ly/2LzwXno. There needs to be room for everyone,. buff.ly/3aQXEx7
Nick Weaver retweeted
There's a simple way of helping more disadvantaged children into university without disadvantaging others. ‘If you want more seats at the table, make a bigger table’ by expanding places, @HMCExecDirector Mike Buchanan tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. buff.ly/3aQXEx7
Nick Weaver retweeted
Listen to @HMCExecDirector Mike Buchanan tell BBC Radio 4’s Today programme why universities should expand the numbers of places they offer so no bright student loses out, whatever their background. Listen from 2:45:00 buff.ly/37NHO4c
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Nick Weaver retweeted
.@HMC_Org urge universities not to discriminate against #privateschools
@HMCExecDirector said a ‘sophisticated approach’ is needed for fairer #university admissions @officestudents
Read more: ow.ly/zgN450y7Om6
Nick Weaver retweeted
#FairerFutures is a great ambition - which means that able people from all backgrounds should have proper access. Let us never discriminate against any young person because of their parents, whatever their household income
Access gaps at the most selective #universities will almost halve in five years if they meet ambitious new commitments. This would mean around 6,500 extra students from the most disadvantaged areas each year at these universities 👍
More: buff.ly/38WYO8H
#FairerFutures
Nick Weaver retweeted
“Not all state-educated students are disadvantaged and the majority of students from affluent backgrounds are not educated in [private] schools. This is why a sophisticated approach is needed for the country genuinely to level up.” gu.com/p/d6npj/stw
Nick Weaver retweeted
The use of crude measures like school type can hinder disadvantaged students at independent schools from winning deserved places at top universities, warns @HMCExecDirector Mike Buchanan following OfS report. Listen to him on LBC buff.ly/2GxH87h (from 2:28:00).
Thanks to Chris Ramsey for his excellent leadership as Co-Chair of this important Committee. A hard act to follow...
A massive thank you from me to all the HE leaders and colleagues, school colleagues and others who have made these last years of debate so enriching. I feel immensely lucky to have been part of it all. Nick takes up from here, and I will be found in due course @WhitgiftHead
The @HMC_HigherEd twitter feed is now in the excellent hands of the new Chair Nick Weaver
Greatly looking forward to @HMC_Org @GSAUK universities meeting at @QMUL on Thursday. It will be my last as chair, so look forward to handing this twitter feed on to @IpswichHead
Nick Weaver retweeted
HE graph of the decade?
2012. Controversial first year of £9k fees in England. If hitting poorer students the politics probably untenable. Graph showed a small effect equal by background. The policy survived. Market in places/young entry growth that shaped the decade followed.
Should universities consider classification by percentage? If the top twenty percent get firsts we would know who the best students are all the time. Just a suggestion.
Our thanks on behalf of @GSAUK @HMC_Org and @WhitgiftSchool1 to all speakers from universities, advisory groups, NGOs and schools, especially terrific current students from @UniofNottingham and @nmite_ac for superb admissions conference yesterday
