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Second, what will be the effect of most schools being their own admissions authority?
2. Checking for a mistake: You have the right to ask the admissions authority exactly why your application was unsuccessful.
The commission found that, with the move to academy status making many more schools effectively their own admissions authority, the system was becoming unacceptably complex for parents to navigate.
The survey of senior manages and admissions tutors at 19 unnamed universities – representing the spread of different institutions in the UK – found that admissions tutors in new universities were more likely than those in elite institutions (69% compared to 57%) to accept the diploma as equivalent to 3.5 A-levels – the scoring recommended by the admissions authority, Ucas.
The research found that schools that acted as their own admissions authority were more likely to be non-compliant with the national admissions codes, fail to publish their admission arrangements in time, use "unnecessarily complex criteria" and be reluctant to accept children who are difficult to place.
The gap is so great that the UK's university admissions authority has warned that being male could soon be seen as a new form of social disadvantage.
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Creating hundred of free schools will automatically create hundreds of new admissions authorities.
Research also shows that schools that are their own admissions authorities are more socially selective.
Under recent changes more than 70% of secondary schools, including academies, are their own admissions authorities.
Gibb himself told the committee that school admissions authorities should not reject parents' requests through a desire for "bureaucratic neatness".
Having entered your desired degree and institution into the Studielink system, your application then gets passed on to the admissions authorities at the corresponding university.
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