This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Tom Fryer, Steve Westlake and Professor Steven Jones.
On 12 January, UCAS released Future of Undergraduate Admissions, a report that contained details of five upcoming reforms.
In the report, UCAS proposes to reform the free-text personal statement into a series of questions. This is welcome. As we noted in our recent HEPI Debate Paper on UCAS personal statements, an essay without a question is always going to breed uncertainty.
So the change does represent progress towards a fairer admissions system. However, the number of steps we take towards this fairer system will depend on how the questions are designed.
