'Today Britain enjoys the dubious distinction of being the only major country where it is government policy to make class a formal criterion for admissions'

Article Abstract:

The university admissions system in the United Kingdom needs to be overhauled and replaced with a US-style SAT-type test if the politicised atmosphere that has developed around the issue is to be cleared away. It is argued that the UK is currently the only major nation to make class an issue in the admissions process and that the implementation of a SAT style system could help nullify this.

Organizational history, Political aspects, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company organization

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'Affirmative action in the US is a legacy of the crime of slavery. It also created its own backwash of racial bitterness and individual injustices'

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the university admissions system in the United Kingdom a comparison with the systems used in the United States and Australia. It is argued that while there is room to improve the admissions system in the UK, to adopt the system used in the US would be to take on a system that has a number of inherent problems that the current system in the UK is able to avoid.

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Baby gloom on horizon

Article Abstract:

There are more female graduates now than in the past and currently almost 60 percent of students in the UK, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, are female. However, female graduates are having fewer or no children and the traditional middle-class recruiting ground for students is shrinking.

Labor Distribution by Employer, Students, College, Statistics, Demographic aspects, College students

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