Anand Shukla, Brightside’s Chief Executive, has been sponsored by the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of London to attend the Harvard Business School course Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management. Here he sets out what he hopes to bring back to Brightside.

Dr. Diana Beech of HEPI sums up the recommendations for improving widening access in our joint report and proposes a path for how they can lead to a higher education system truly open to everyone.

Unpaid internships and work experiences should be paid and openly advertised to equal access and increase social mobility.

There should be further research into the specific contexts behind admissions data to help public understanding and the development of appropriate policies.

Reversing the decline in part-time students needs to be top of the agenda.

There should be much greater collaboration between employers, schools and universities to ensure all young people have access to transformative careers advice.

The Office for Students should make rebalancing higher education a priority and incentivise universities to offer degrees which will meet our skills needs.

A cap on student numbers should be reintroduced, with hard quotas for students from working-class backgrounds at each university.

The surge in unconditional offers should be curbed before it damages the life chances of some of the most underprivileged students.

Employers should ensure they are not just attracting students from a limited list of the least diverse institutions and refusing to consider students below a certain A-Level tariff.

Universities need to ensure that disabled students are supported to succeed in an inclusive higher education environment.

Universities should develop rural outreach programmes to eradicate higher education 'cold spots'.