Further barriers to equal opportunity are created, perpetuating disparity, rather than challenging it.
To say now that a C is what stands between them and finishing their education will add further barriers.
"We anticipate a prompt answer and do not see any further barriers arising," said Walter Reiser, the Paraguayan representative on the commission.
The decision was criticised by the National Union of Students, which argued that it put up further barriers to poorer students.
He added: "Ofgem believes a referral offers the opportunity to once and for all clear the air and decide if there are any further barriers which are preventing competition from bearing down as hard as possible on prices," he said.
But the development has been criticised by the government's adviser on fair admissions, Professor Steven Schwartz, who argues it places further barriers in the way of working-class students.
"Ofgem believes a referral [to the CMA] offers the opportunity to once and for all clear the air and decide if there are further barriers which are preventing competition from bearing down as hard as possible on prices," said Dermot Nolan, the new chief executive of Ofgem.
BP's verdict: Halliburton and BP to blame 2. Further barriers at the bottom of the drill pipe failed to stop the hydrocarbons bursting into the well pipe The report says: "The "shoe track" cement and the float collar must have failed to prevent this" influx of oil and gas.
Sunday papers have further barriers to overcome - first, the rolling demands of web publishing sit uneasily with journalists whose entire efforts are currently directed to publishing on only one day of the week; second, the most bullish forecasts of internet ad revenue fail to generate in one quiet day the sums required to keep a Sunday newspaper in the staff to which it has become accustomed.
Stigmatization poses further barriers to seeking necessary mental health care.
Mothers with preterm infants face further barriers to breastfeeding.
