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Direct linkMountford-Zimdars, Anna; Moore, Joanne; Graham, Janet – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2016
This article reviews the idea of contextualising applicants to higher education in order to widen access. First, the meaning of contextualised admissions (CAs) is discussed before laying out the rationale for contextualising applicants and the beneficiaries of the policy. The final sections discuss key critiques of CA and conclude by arguing that…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Educational Policy
Download full textBoliver, Vikki; Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia – Education Sciences, 2015
In the UK, as elsewhere, the use of "contextual" data has been strongly advocated in order to inform undergraduate admissions decision-making. More than a third of UK universities currently take the socioeconomic or other background context of undergraduate applicants' attainment into account when deciding whom to shortlist, interview,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Undergraduate Study, Higher Education
Baum, Sandy; McPherson, Michael S. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
The world of higher education is a world of sorting, selecting, and ranking--on both sides of the market. Colleges select students to recruit and then to admit; students choose where to apply and which offer to accept. The sorting process that gets the most attention is in the higher reaches of the market, where it is not too much to say that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Admission, Access to Education, Scaling
