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Atherton, Graeme – Sutton Trust, 2021
England has a 'pre-qualification' system of higher education admissions, where applications and offers are made to young people before exam results are received. While in most cases offers are conditional on achieving a grade target in A Level exams, recent years have seen an exponential growth in 'unconditional offers', where the offer of a place…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Universities, Qualifications
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Karlijn F. B. Soppe; Irene G. Klugkist; Theo Wubbels; Leoniek D. N. V. Wijngaards de Meij – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
In the Netherlands, the implementation of mandatory procedures in which prospective students do a final check on their initial higher education program choice (so-called matching procedures), were introduced to improve student-program fit. We argue that prospective students who lack feelings of fit with the program during these matching procedures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Choice, College Bound Students