Cambridge University entrance tests 'potential barrier to disadvantaged'
Universities not to blame for inequality
By Telegraph View. The difficulty, however, is that would-be students from these backgrounds tend not to obtain the necessary grades. The damage, in other words, has been done long before they sit their A-levels, or even GCSEs. Read more...
Poorer students ‘disadvantaged’ in postgraduate funding struggle
By Chris Havergal. Nearly half of the richest applicants to postgraduate degrees expect to rely on their parents for funding, while as few as one in eight students from poorer backgrounds can say the same. More...
Poor personal statement advice ‘harms university chances’
By Chris Havergal. Poor advice from teachers on how to write a personal statement is harming disadvantaged students’ hopes of winning a place at a highly selective university, a study suggests. More...
‘Biased’ students give BME academics lower NSS scores, says study
By Chris Havergal. Students who are taught by black or ethnic minority academics are less likely to rate their courses positively in the National Student Survey, according to a study. More...
De la nécessité de s’attaquer aux inégalités
Par Jean Pierre Gonguet. Les inégalités se creusent, peut-on inverser la tendance ? L’économiste anglais Anthony Atkinson qui travaille depuis très longtemps sur la question, qui partage quelques idées fortes avec Amartya Sen et qui a inspiré Thomas Piketty a toujours estimé qu’il n’y avait aucune fatalité aux inégalités. Voir l'article...
Mesurer les inégalités : une démarche toujours plus nécessaire
Par Institut Montaigne. Près de dix ans après la première enquête "Trajectoires et Origines" (TeO), conduite conjointement par l’Ined et l’Insee, une version actualisée a été publiée le 13 janvier dernier. Elle expose les résultats d’un travail de recherche dont l’ampleur est inédite en France. La dernière enquête d’envergure analysant l’intégration des immigrés et de leurs descendants remonte à 1992. Voir l'article...
Network Inequality
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Network Inequality
Anil Dash, Medium, 2016/01/21
Why isn't there more diversity in ranks of social media A-listers? It's because platform-builders are often advised to focus on theoir own niche first, and the A-listers "were simply talented people who were early to the platform, and often were chosen by the platform as 'featured users'" picked out of that handful of friends and family who joined the platform. More...