Unlike many Russell Group universities, we do not sponsor academies – many of which are unofficially selective – or offer academic GCSEs and A-levels to a highly selective proportion of their intake, according to research by Dr Katherine Burn.
The internet is an information trollop, an embarrassment of riches; any real organization of knowledge is rigorously selective, and the academic disciplines provide that.
However, selective enhancement on academic attainment and other cognitive skills was not found either immediately after training or 1 year later [ 40].
52 We assessed the following risk of bias domains: sequence generation, concealment of allocation, blinding, incomplete outcome data, selective outcome reporting, academic bias and sponsor bias.
The headteachers' letter was also sent to Neil Carmichael, the Tory chair of the Commons education committee, which meets on Tuesday to consider the evidence for and against selective education from academics and policy experts, including the school standards minister, Nick Gibb.
But this argument depends on a highly selective reading of the academic literature.
The Shulman-Bowen data show that recruited athletes not only enter selective colleges with weaker academic records than their classmates as a whole but that, once in college, they "consistently underperform academically even after we control for standardized test scores and other variables".
Some educators, parents and students worry that if admissions are based purely on academic merit, selective universities will be dominated by whites and Asians and admit few blacks and Latinos, as a result of socioeconomic factors and an enduring test-score gap.
Those that remain independent are typically highly selective, and have strong academic reputations.
