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News in brief
a list of more than 50 books crossing a wide range of disciplines, including Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Miranda Kaufmann’s Black Tudors.
This will be an evolving and intersectional equality project with student well-being, collaboration and education at its heart.
A Mansfield education is about considering and valuing all perspectives and voices, not just those traditionally at the fore.
Thanks to our wonderful Librarians, Clare Kavanagh and Sally Jones, books are now distributed to the relevant sections throughout the Library, and there is also an accompanying guide and rotating display selection. We hope that in the course of students’ time with us, this initiative will help them encounter a more diverse curriculum, and become more aware, more critical, and more fruitful thinkers because of it.
Access to Excellence: the first 20 years
In 2020, we celebrated 20 years since the inception of our highly successful Access to Excellence Campaign.
Launched by Professor David Marquand, Principal 1996-2002, and supported by Guy Hands, the Sutton Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council England among others, the initiative grew out of Mansfield’s mission as a College: to make an Oxford University education available to all those with the academic potential to benefit from it, regardless of educational background.
As a result of innovative outreach efforts over two decades, particularly targeting Further Education and sixth-form colleges, Mansfield welcomed over 90% of its UK undergraduates from non- selective state schools in the academic year 2019/20; and more than 40% of
its offer-holders were from the most disadvantaged educational and socio- economic backgrounds. In the same year, on the Norrington Table, Mansfield was rated fifth of the 39 Oxford colleges for academic excellence.
Our next step is to focus on helping students access equal chances after
they leave the University, by supporting them to build social as well as educational capital. We believe it is essential now more than ever, that voices in leadership positions – whether in politics, industry, education or other sectors – better represent the diverse society that makes up the UK today.
Mansfield Access Ambassadors
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