According to yesterday’s Times UCAS, the body that brokers applications to British universities, has scrapped the previous requirement to include a personal statement with an application. This comes, reportedly, in response to calls from social mobility activists to scrap the statement, a text iscriticised for favouring those middle-class applicants who…
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