Editing Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (section)

==Foundation year==
Lady Margaret Hall is the only Oxford college to offer a [[foundation year]]; the scheme recruits students from minority and underrepresented backgrounds, and offers successful applicants lower grade requirements than the standard Oxford entry grades. Students choose a subject to specialise in, and also take courses in study skills and other general subject areas,<ref name="University Times Foundation"/><ref name="LMH Foundation">{{cite web|url=http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/foundation-year/lmh-foundation-year-students/studying-foundation-year|title=Studying on the Foundation Year|publisher=Lady Margaret Hall|access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> with the aim that they progress to an undergraduate degree at the college after a year of study.<ref name="Guardian foundation">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/20/oxford-college-lady-margaret-hall-scheme-recruit-disadvantaged-students|title=Oxford college launches pilot scheme to recruit disadvantaged students|last=Adaams|first=Richard |date=2016-04-20|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-08-08|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Pupils live in the college and have access to the same university facilities, both academic and social, as other students.<ref name="LMH Foundation"/>

Modelled after a programme at [[Trinity College, Dublin]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21711523-rising-share-pupils-state-schools-disguises-fact-many-parts-country|title=Oxford University tries a new approach to recruiting poor students|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=10 December 2016|access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> the four-year pilot scheme began in 2016 with 10 students,<ref name="University Times Foundation"/><ref name="Times foundation">{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/varaidzo-kativhu-i-just-assumed-oxford-university-would-be-for-the-posh-9nmt37883|title=Varaidzo Kativhu: 'I just assumed Oxford university would be for the posh'|work=[[The Times]]|last1=Thomson|first1=Alice|last2=Sylvester|first2=Rachel|date=19 October 2017|access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> seven of whom went on to study at Oxford, with the other three receiving offers from different [[Russell Group]] universities.<ref name="University Times Foundation">{{cite web|url=http://www.universitytimes.ie/2017/10/trinitys-access-programme-is-teaching-oxford-lessons/|title=Trinity's Access Programme is Teaching Oxford Lessons|work=[[The University Times]]|last=Foley|first=Holly|date=4 October 2017|access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> It was praised by [[David Lammy]], a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP who said the foundation year is "exactly the sort of thing that needs to be done", and by [[Les Ebdon]], director of [[Office for Fair Access]], who described the programme as "innovative and important".<ref name="Guardian foundation"/>