Sir Martin Harris, director of the Office for Fair Access, said efforts to widen participation would have "limited" success unless universities engaged with young people "at a much earlier age than 16 or 18".
Harris, who was addressing a conference organised by the Frank Buttle Trust to discuss the By Degrees: From Care to University report (see Research Report, p19), also said universities should not forget to work with schools where aspirations and attainment were lowest.
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