Who is getting into medical school? Courses dominated by wealthy students | Stuff.co.nz

An Otago University professor is sounding the alarm that university education is becoming more of a privilege of the wealthy than a right for all. It comes after an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal found Otago Uni had stalling levels of students from low socio-economic backgrounds in its professional health programmes. Laura Tupou reports. | Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB Read more: For full coverage visit www.Stuff.co.nz Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuff is New Zealand's largest and most popular news site. With more than 500 journalists spread from Northland to Southland, we cover breaking news, politics, business, sport, crime, the environment, health, education, home and property, food, lifestyle, entertainment, weather, travel, technology, motoring, farming and much more. As well as covering the stories of the day, we specialise in investigative journalism, opinion and analysis, and long-form writing and visual storytelling. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social media channels: TikTok:   / nzstuff   Twitter:   / nzstuff