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Using Contextual Data to Widen Access to Higher Education
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Boliver, Vikki; Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2021
This paper reports on the findings of an ESRC funded project that contributes to the evidence base underpinning contextualised approaches to undergraduate admissions in England. We show that the bolder use of reduced entry requirements for disadvantaged learners is necessary if ambitious new widening access targets set by the Office for Students…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, College Admission
Improving Applicant Aim in College Choices.
Tyson, Daniel C. – Journal of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 1981
Describes the use of scattergrams which aid counselors in identifying consistent patterns in the admissions process and provide students and parents with "visual" advice in choosing a college. (Author)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Choice, Data Collection
A Followup Study of the CETA College Adapter Program. Final Report.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Research. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) project completers in the college adapter program (CAP) have shown evidence of successful performance in a postsecondary program. Specific objectives of the project were (1) to determine the number of CETA project completers who matriculated at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Admission (School), College Admission
Modifying the Culture of Medical Education: The First Three Years of the RWJ Generalist Physician Initiative.
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Colwill, Jack M.; Perkoff, Gerald T.; Blake, Robert L., Jr.; Paden, Carrie; Beachler, Michael – Academic Medicine, 1997
Describes the first three years of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's six-year, $32-million grant program designed to help medical schools increase their production of generalist physicians. Outlines the program's conceptual bases, identifies common approaches to intervention in the 14 participating schools, and explores administrative and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Change Strategies, College Admission, College Environment
The Transfer Student: An Action Agenda for Higher Education.
Sandeen, Arthur; Goodale, Thomas – 1976
Described is a program developed by the Research Division of NASPA starting in 1971 that planned more thoroughly for transfer students to the university. After an introduction to the problem and a profile of the contemporary transfer student, problems of program articulation, academic advising, admissions, and student services (including housing,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Development, College Admission, College Housing
A Report on the Early Leavers' Scheme at Monash University, 1974-1977.
Smurthwaite, Ann; And Others – 1977
Examined is the success of Monash's Early Leavers' Scheme in terms of the performance, characteristics, and experience of successful applicants, and the manner in which the scheme has operated. The first section of the report provides background information on the establishment of the Scheme (to provide a modification to entry requirements for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants
Current Trends in Associate Degree Nursing Programs.
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Blackstone, Elaine Grant – 1974
This study was designed to ascertain current trends in associate degree nursing programs and to discover innovative ideas and techniques which could be applied to the existing program at Miami-Dade Community College (Florida). Data was compiled from interviews with representatives of ten associate degree nursing programs in six states. Information…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, College Admission