The phrase "access gap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a disparity in the availability or ability to access resources, services, or information, often in the context of technology or education.
Example: "The digital divide has created a significant access gap for rural communities, limiting their ability to participate in online learning."
Alternatives: "access disparity" or "access inequality".
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of social mobility charity the Sutton Trust, said: "The continuing growth in disadvantaged applicants is welcome, and will narrow the access gap.
"With the access gap at these universities still unacceptably wide, the government should be doing all it can to increase participation, not reduce it".
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The Sutton Trust – which campaigns on widening access to education – said the remaining "significant access gap" between state and privately educated students may be down to support and advice offered at schools.
Projects brought in from overseas have been criticised for creating dependency, but while India has a target of 100% village electrification by 2018, there is still a significant access gap that these cheap solar lights could help address.
Technology can also be a major enabler of effective policymaking and improvement on the ground: decentralised renewable energy is providing an increasingly viable way to close the access gap in rural areas, particularly for remote settlements far from the existing grid.
To evaluate the accessibility of existing transit services and identify access gaps, it is critical to accurately estimate travel times between transit stops, which change throughout the day due to transit schedule variations.
"This points toward continued access gaps, as well as significant growth potential," said Dimitris Tsitsigaros, I.F.C.'s director for the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe.
For a scenario that is consistent with limiting global warming to below 2°C, we find that domestic carbon pricing (without redistribution of revenues across countries) has substantial potential to close existing access gaps for water, sanitation, electricity, and telecommunication.
But the access gaps create structural obstacles to finishing the job.
The buzz words in education often focus on achievement or access gaps, but there is another gap that needs to be addressed, the financial gap.
