Professor Alan Ryan writes on undergraduate admissions practices

Alan Ryan, emeritus professor of political theory at Oxford, writes in The Times Higher Education (26 January) on the potentially damaging impact of importing US-style undergraduate admissions practices to the UK.

For Alan, the US experience shows that those who would lose out would be clever and well-educated first-generation applicants, not rich enough to attract the development office, but too white and not poor enough to catch the eye of the dean for diversity and equality.

He also tackles the issue of prejudice at Oxford from personal experience.

The full article can be read here.

Professor Alan Ryan is an associate member of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.