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Concern over teachers’ university advice
28 January 2016
Javier Espinoza reported for the Daily Telegraph on Making a Statement
Teachers are ruining children’s’ chances of getting to Oxbridge by giving them poor feedback, new research shows.
A new study by the Sutton Trust studied the personal statements of 44 students from state schools. Out of these, 27 received help from teachers with writing a statement, which was then used by admissions tutors to decide which candidates deserved a place at their institutions. The remaining 17 were used as a control group
Read his full piece here. His colleague, Josie Gurney Read looked for Telegraph online at Personal statements: when teachers get it wrong.
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