Sentence examples for opened up higher from inspiring English sources

We opened up higher education to nearly half the population.

The creation of the Open University (OU) in 1969 opened up higher education, and not only for students who had hitherto felt excluded from universities: many progressive governors welcomed the OU into their jails with open arms and hundreds of prisoners found their qualifications helped them steer away from crime.

Both markets opened up higher on momentum from the late rally on Wall Street Thursday before experiencing volatility in midday trading.

"[The] merger will reap tremendous benefits for us, opening up higher education opportunities for many more thousands of people across the west of Scotland.

In the 1960s, as adviser to Anthony Crosland, the education secretary, he was instrumental in the creation of polytechnics and all that they symbolised in terms of opening up higher education to the wider population.

In 1992, the Conservative government of Prime Minister John Major put an end to the division between universities and so-called polytechnics and furthered moves to open up higher education to a larger number of students.

But the answer is not to devote more resources to the admissions process; the answer is to open up higher education to all who truly have the ambition for it.

With a mission statement committed to "encouraging and enabling people to achieve their full potential", the polytechnic launched a range of radical ways to open up higher education opportunities.

His concern is that hard-up universities will be unable to support disabled students if they have to pick up the tab for support that the DSA has covered until now, and that this would undo years of work that has helped open up higher education to disabled students.

Blended learning is top of the agenda for many of the private education providers who are set to become big players in the UK when the government implements its plans to open up higher education to a wider range of providers.

He evolved into an educational reformer committed to downplaying the influence of classics, introducing modern subjects, and opening up higher education to women.