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The Transition from Vocational to Higher Education from the Perspective of Higher Education Admission Staff

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    UCAS is the organisation responsible for managing applications to higher education courses in the UK. The UCAS tariff is the system for allocating points to qualifications used for entry to higher education. It allows students to use a range of different qualifications to help secure a place on an undergraduate course. For instance, the highest grade (A*) in an A level counts for 140 UCAS tariff points (see http://www.ucas.com/students/ucas_tariff/tarifftables/).

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    For details on the sampling of subjects and institutions see Ertl and Dunbar-Goddet (2007).

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  1. Hubert Ertl

    Present address: Department of Education, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, OX2 6PY, Oxford, UK

  2. Geoff Hayward

    Present address: School of Education, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

  3. John McLaughlin

    Present address: Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, MA 02138, Cambridge, USA

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    Ertl, H., Hayward, G., McLaughlin, J. (2012). The Transition from Vocational to Higher Education from the Perspective of Higher Education Admission Staff. In: Pilz, M. (eds) The Future of Vocational Education and Training in a Changing World. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18757-0_5

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