University admissions processes "barriers to poorer students" says Sutton Trust report

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:01

An overhaul of university admissions processes – including an end to making offers based on predicted A level grades and a review of personal statements – is being urged today in a new Sutton Trust research report which shows that the brightest disadvantaged students are losing out in the current system.   The report, Rules of the Game, by Dr Gill Wyness, Senior Lecturer in Economics of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, says that the admission...Request free trial