{"id":2724,"date":"2016-12-15T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2016-12-15T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T13:29:55","slug":"bristol-university-accepts-lower-grades-for-some-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/12\/bristol-university-accepts-lower-grades-for-some-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol University Accepts Lower Grades for Some Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am all for widening access to University, but it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me to widen access by letting students in who haven&#8217;t got high enough grades, if they come from a lower class background.<br \/>\nStudents who haven&#8217;t got the grades are frankly, not good enough. They can&#8217;t be bothered to study, and are doomed to fail at a good university like Bristol.<br \/>\nMaybe though, Bristol is thinking of providing a class of dumbed down degrees for these students, in the same way as Prince Charles was provided with a dumbed down degree from Cambridge, when he failed to get the grades to get into Cambridge on merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am all for widening access to University, but it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me to widen access by letting students in who haven&#8217;t got high enough grades, if they come from a lower class background. Students who haven&#8217;t got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/12\/bristol-university-accepts-lower-grades-for-some-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}