A £1.8 MILLION scheme to make professions such as medicine and law more accessible to students from deprived backgrounds in Scotland is to be expanded.
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) said it intended to "accelerate" the three-year initiative, which is running at a number of universities, including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and St Andrews.
Yesterday, The Herald revealed the Access to the Professions project will see just 23 extra medical students recruited per year from the 40% most deprived areas in Scotland.
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