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Student-led widening access schemes [PDF]
Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2017 Utkarsh Ojha, Shivam Patel Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK Abstract: Medicine is among the most competitive degrees in the UK.
Ojha U, Patel S
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Widening Access to Bayesian Problem Solving [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Bayesian reasoning and decision making is widely considered normative because it minimizes prediction error in a coherent way. However, it is often difficult to apply Bayesian principles to complex real world problems, which typically have many unknowns ...
Nicole Cruz +8 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK medical school widening access schemes: disruption, support and a virtual student led initiative [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2021 Background COVID-19 has disrupted medical education in the United Kingdom (UK). The pandemic may result in a long-term disproportionate negative impact to students applying to Medical School from a low-socioeconomic background.
Emily R Bligh +4 more
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BMC Medical Education, 2022 Background Previous studies have shown performance in the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) to be associated with measures of candidate socio-economic advantage such as parental occupation and type of school attended. It is possible that access to
Sanat Kulkarni, Jayne Parry, Alice Sitch
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Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020 This study examines how Swedish students originating from metropolitan areas have used university colleges to access higher education. In the 1970s, as part of a series of reforms to the Swedish higher education system, university colleges were ...
Aimee Haley
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Perspectives on Medical Education, 2020 Introduction Social comparisons strongly influence an individual’s concept of self, their aspirations and decisions. This study investigates how non-traditional applicants used social comparison to shape their preferences, beliefs and predictions whilst ...
Rachel Ball +2 more
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Extended Science: a powerful tool in widening participation
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2016 Year zero courses, as part of extended degree programmes, offer a robust and efficacious means of increasing participation in science and other areas of the university curriculum where graduate shortages have been identified, STEM subjects for example ...
David John Harwood
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BMC Medical Education, 2018 Background Under-representation of some socio-economic groups in medicine is rooted in under-representation of those groups in applications to medical school. This study aimed to explore what may deter school-age children from applying to study medicine.
Alexander J. Martin +6 more
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Evaluation of access and participation plans: Understanding what works
Frontiers in Education, 2023 We present an analysis of two current policy options to improve evaluation of access and participation work: independent external evaluation vs. in-house evaluation.
Elisabeth Moores +5 more
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Widening Blockchain Technology toward Access Control for Service Provisioning in Cellular Networks
Sensors, 2023 The attention on blockchain technology (BCT) to create new forms of relational reliance has seen an explosion of new applications and initiatives, to assure decentralized security and trust. Its potential as a game-changing technology relates to how data
Fariba Ghaffari +4 more
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