Oxford Digs Deep For Better Students
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LONDON: Oxford University is refining its admissions policy in an attempt to seek out more academically bright students from poor-performing schools and less-affluent backgrounds, a leading daily reported on Sunday.
For the first time, professors will have detailed information that allows them to compare the quality of schools before candidates are offered seats. This is to help them differentiate between students who achieved top grades at strong state schools and those who reached the same level with no such advantage.
In making the changes, Oxford University has rejected plans to check the family backgrounds of undergraduates by asking if their parents attended varsity.
"We want the educational context rather than the personal one," The Guardian quoted the university''s Director of Undergraduate Admissions Mike Nicholson as saying.
He said that Oxford had a "conscious obligation" to seek out the best students regardless of background, and the new information on schooling would be another factor that could help them. "Potential is very difficult to measure," the director said. "But we are keen not to just look at (students'') existing performance but how they could do over three years. A student who is in an environment with a lot of support will be well prepared. Where a student has less support, we need to factor that in," Nicholson said.
The Oxford plan comes days after new figures revealed that Britain''s top universities were falling short of the benchmarks for recruiting both state school students and those from poorer backgrounds.
The university traces its roots back to at least the end of the 11th century, although the exact date of foundation remains unclear. This dating would make its duration now equal to 900 years, comparable to Plato''s Academy . After a dispute between students and townsfolk broke out in 1209, some of the academics at oxford fled to the town of cambridge
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