This is another area where there's been some progress made in recent years, but there is more distance to go around removing barriers for accessibility, particularly for under-represented groups and under-represented students.
One thing the evidence has shown is that if you invest strategically and you have a system that's designed to meet these goals, you can do it. It's a question of money. It's also about system design, and the government has made some good investments in this area. There is still much more to be done.
Let's put it in economic and demographic terms. We have to increase labour force participation in this country. We have all sorts of talented people sitting on the edges, sitting on the margins. We have to bring them into colleges and universities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Unless we do that, our standard of living will not support the quality of life we've come to expect.