Exposure of the United Kingdom A-levels "soft" Sciences of informal blacklist _ index education

Index: Guide to education abroad is still continuing boom, the most popular places, always varies some mixed negative food, emerging mobility market. From here, the United Kingdom to study the official consolidation of market study popular, disdain not serious "soft science." By think-tank PolicyExchange (policy exchange) arrangements for the investigation found that, for high school students during such as media studies (mediastudies), commercial (business studies), movement research (sports studies), music technology (musictechnology) and even law (law) of students, many universities offer position than to the location of the traditional discipline students. Most of these disciplines mentioned above are referred to as "soft" Sciences (softsubjects) this shows some smart student inadvertently by top universities to "exclude", just because they made the wrong choice of subject. The oldest in the United Kingdom, Oxford University (University ofOxford) as an example, last year, only the 16 learning media research A-levels only school graduates received one thousandth of a full A-levels graduates. In contrast, researchers found that these universities including economics (economics), French (French), history (history) and geographical (geography) these so-called "traditional" art and the humanities, but taking a disproportionate. "Soft" sciences at Cambridge University (University of Cambridge) clearly lists 20 doors may be considered in the application of the "poor" disciplines including accountancy (accounting), commercial (business), dance (dance), ICT, media, research, sports, travel and tourism (traveland tourism). But there is a digital display, not willing to be considered "soft" Sciences of the University up to 27. "Soft" artistic disciplines such as art (art), drama (drama), film studies (filmstudies) and media research, in the chosen rate A-levels students 10.6%, but in this 27 United Kingdom University, these disciplines have been candidates for admission only 5.2%. Many parents and students surprise, something they think is traditional and "serious" subjects, such as accounting, law, sociology (socialstudies) and Psychology (psychology), where in many university students are not welcome. Students should know the truth of the conclusion was: "If the leading universities believe that certain subjects could not provide adequate preparation for higher education, and would rather not receive these students, the Government announced that no ' soft ' Sciences this thing is simply inconsistent with the facts. "The report said that the parties concerned should tell students, University students were not entirely fair A-levels. A think tank said that interested parties should also endeavour to remind students to select the "soft" sciences may limit them into University. The report said: "secondary school students to provide accurate and useful information face a daunting task. "However, some schools even the most basic proposals are provided. Reported that only blame University. Report urges schools needed to increase the focus on higher education guidance consultation, this in not selecting students enrolled in public schools in a particular need; these schools than private school students are more likely to be chosen in non-traditional "soft" sciences. Admission subject requirements this report calls for research intensive universities Act now to improve the "related subject selection and admission of transparency. "This includes University Web site disclosure of non-priority subjects and explains what discipline is not suitable for certain courses. Currently, only the University of Cambridge and London (London School ofEconomics) published the clear "non-priority" A-levels subjects, for students choose subjects. London College Admissions officials Catherine �� Bell Devon (CatherineBaldwin) told researchers said: "the school in dealing with students on University Affairs does have great difficulty, each University has its own program. "" This might be confusing, so a few years ago we decided to let everyone know our program. "Focus on the work of the Russell Group universities (Russell Group) Wendy Dr �� Piatra (Dr WendyPiatt) said that the Group of members of the University is on the increase and improvement for potential students to provide information about their selected curriculum needs of academic achievements, skills and knowledge.