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Will 'structured' application questions pave the way to fairer uni admissions in the UK? 🎓 Great to read the news just now that UCAS (the UK's university admissions agency) are scrapping the personal statement section of applications and replacing it with 3 structured questions in September 2025. 1. Why do you want to study this course or subject? 2. How have your qualifications and studies helped you to prepare for this course or subject? 3. What else have you done to prepare outside of education, and why are these experiences helpful? I think this is a step in the right direction (and from my own experience, going over every word of that previously very free-form statement - several times - and hoping that it was what my preferred unis were looking for was not much fun!) But of course, even with more clarity on what you need to answer, there will still be gaps in knowledge of the types of responses that universities are looking for. I still feel that those with extensive access to career role models, advice, and writing support will have an advantage in answering these questions well. 📜 How can we close the gap even further? #Careers #CareersGuidance #CareersCoaching #UCAS #PersonalStatement #SocialMobility

_______________________________________ "Thanks for your message and interest in my lab. I am looking for new Ph.D. students (Fall 2025) so please apply to our Grad Studies program." _________________________________________ Dear Graduate School Hopeful, Once you get the above reply from a Professor you cold mail, the following are your next lines of action; 1. Search the Department/School if they have funding via GRA, GTA or GA. See if you qualify for the GRA position available. 2. Check the Date for their virtual open day and attend. Don't forget to get the application fee waiver code, if available. 3. Apply for the position. Mention the Professor as someone you have contacted ab-initio. (This may only be necessary if you are asked to). 4. Reach back to the Prof, that you have applied. In this mail, ask if there is funding. Tell him you are open to further directives and guidance. Express your gratitude again for his willingness to have you in his Lab. 5. Wait on your mail for the interview schedule date. Prepare for it and go be the best. Should you do well at the interview, you are on your way to a funded MS/PhD position. Generally, I consider that kind of reply, a 25% success story. Now that you know, go and send out more cold mails. #scholarshipnoticeboard #phd #students #interview #school #msc

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As Prof Tan's article pointed out, it is misleading to say that academic qualifications are more important than skills or vice versa. The issue which I am more concerned about is not the 'divide' but the 'qualification'. Replacing the paper-chase for academic qualifications with skills-based qualifications does not make us any better in facing the challenges before us. The issue is whether we love to learn. If our system of education, examination and employment is set up to prioritise qualifications over learning, then we are none the wiser in this endless chase from one goal post to another. But a correction to the over-emphasis on academic qualification based on exam grades is timely, having said the above. In some round-about ways, part of this national movement to emphasise skills-based learning is a strategy to de-emphasise exam grades per se. De-emphasising grades is one. But promoting learning and harnessing the curiosity our children possess is another.

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