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From “Admissions” to “Recruitment”: The Professionalisation of Higher Education Admissions

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This paper deals with the strategicpressures which are reinforcing andaccelerating the professionalisation of thepolicies and procedures for the admission ofundergraduate students to higher education (HE)in the UK. It reviews the assumptions andpractices which have, until fairly recently,dominated the ways in which students areadmitted and then surveys new models which areemerging as higher education institutions(HEIs) seek to respond to the demands of a massHE system and pressures for greater socialinclusiveness in the student body. Thesemodels in turn create new needs, both human andtechnical, which the HE system has begun toaddress.

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  1. Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LZ, UK, E-mail

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McClaran, A. From “Admissions” to “Recruitment”: The Professionalisation of Higher Education Admissions. Tertiary Education and Management 9, 159–167 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023536120851

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