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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I would like to thank all colleagues from universities in the UK who send their moral support for my request to University managements to provide new 100 full scholarships per year at each
UK university for students from economically poor families and first-generation students (first in family to go to university). Your help and support is greatly appreciated. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I understand that some senior management colleagues in some UK universities are opposing my request for providing new 100 full scholarships per year at each UK university for students from
economically poor families and first-generation students. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">According to statistics provided at Child Poverty Action Group , there were
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">4.2 million children</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> living in poverty in the UK in 2021-22. That's 29 per
cent of children, or </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">nine in a classroom of 30.
</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Details at
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Extreme child poverty in the UK is a humanitarian and ethical crisis. In educational terms, poverty is a significant disadvantage. The link between poverty and poor educational outcomes and
wellbeing in the UK has remained stubbornly and depressingly high despite longstanding policy concern at national, local and jurisdictional levels of government. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Child poverty, education and the postcode lottery</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2020/08/19/child-poverty-education-and-the-postcode-lottery/" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2020/08/19/child-poverty-education-and-the-postcode-lottery/</b></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">Access to quality education opportunities is a human right. Universities have a social responsibility. There is an urgent need to scale up the EDI scholarship initiatives
by all UK universities.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">How can some University Senior managers who are earning huge salaries (over £100K per year!) oppose my humble request for</b></span><b class="x_ContentPasted0"><span class="x_Apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">providing 100 full scholarships for students from economically poor families and first-generation students?</b></span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">What moral authority do these university senior managers have when they</b></span><b class="x_ContentPasted0"><span class="x_Apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">continued to increase senior management pay and their investments in vanity projects?</b></span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">At the same time, staff in higher education who have worked hard and generated record income for the sector has only to be rewarded with attacks on their pay, working conditions, and
pensions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I request the University vice-chancellors and senior management in all UK Universities to please consider my humble request for providing new 100 full scholarships per year at each UK university
for students from economically poor families and first-generation students. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b class="x_ContentPasted0">If you are working in a UK university and your university doesn’t have a EDI scholarships program, may I request you to be a champion in your university for EDI
scholarships initiative. May I request you to kindly share and support the Open Letter that I published requesting EDI scholarships at all UK universities. </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please find details of my open letters at</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I request your kind support for my request for providing new 100 full scholarships per year at each UK university for students from economically poor families and first-generation students. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am very grateful to all amazing colleagues from around the world working for making education opportunities for all. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I look forward to working with all UK universities to increase education opportunities for all students. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best wishes</span></p>
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