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  There are various financial ways in which universities are being 'encouraged' to recruit more students from schools with lower expectations of their students, which are usually those which have a higher proportion of students claiming free meals.
  
  Twenty years ago with other colleagues I started doing what are now called 'outreach' activities in schools and with Kent Science Fairs to promote scientific careers among children from primary age upwards and was told it wasn't a priority for my time - now universities are expected to do this and assessed on their activities for governement funding.

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