University of Cambridge & King's College
A Modern Design for University Admissions in the UK
(joint work with Battal Dogan)
In response to the UK Government's open consultation about Post-qualification admissions in higher education, we propose a new framework to organise the university admissions process in the UK.
PDFs of the full policy paper and the related theory paper are at the bottom of this page.
POLICY BRIEFS
The following are available upon request.
A brief summary of our argument (two pages)
One-page proposal summary (PQ-offers version)
Post-qualification-applications version (PQ-apps version 1)
Another version of the post-qualification-application model (PQ-apps version 2)
BLOGPOSTS
Our opinion piece at Economics Observatory
What went wrong with UK university admissions in the summer of 2021? Ungated version here
How to make higher education admissions fairer, quicker and better (A discussion of our work by Rob Cuthbert)
FULL DETAILS OF OUR PROPOSAL
Detailed proposal without the background discussion
Click here for the full paper "A Modern Design for University Admissions in the UK" (Includes an extensive Q&A Section in the Appendix)
NEW: Widening Access in University Admissions with Battal Dogan
If you have any comments or questions for us, please do get in touch: nae25@cam.ac.uk