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Direct linkFryer, Tom; Jones, Steven – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023
In January 2023, UCAS announced their intention to reform the personal statement to a series of short questions. This built upon UCAS's work with students and providers in 2022/23, as well as academic literature that has documented the challenges and inequalities that surround the personal statement, including the Higher Education Policy Institute…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, College Applicants, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Peer reviewedHenry, Philip – College and University, 2016
In this article Philip Henry, now in semi-retirement, reflects on the last 50 years of his career in United Kingdom higher education and the changes that ensued during this time. Over the span of his career he had the opportunity to experience a wide range of institutions in all of the U.K. university mission groups and in a range of positions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Data, Registrars (School)
Chankseliani, Maia – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2018
In the context marked by increasing competition between nation-states and universities, expanding individualization, growing influence of nonstate actors, and the new reality of Brexit, this study uses narrative and numeric data to explore the rationales of U.K. higher education (HE) internationalization, specifically motives of attracting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Student Mobility, Study Abroad
Cleland, Jennifer; Fahey Palma, Tania – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
Despite repeated calls for change, the problem of widening access (WA) to medicine persists globally. One factor which may be operating to maintain social exclusion is the language used in representing WA applicants and students by the gatekeepers and representatives of medical schools, Admissions Deans. We therefore examined the institutional…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Social Isolation, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education
Download full textFitzgerald, Saira – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This article presents the results of the first Canada-wide survey on how university admissions personnel view the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) in relation to other curricula. The purpose of this study was twofold: (i) to move beyond anecdote and discover how Canada compares with universities in the UK and Australia/NZ, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Universities, Admissions Officers
