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• Win-win? Deliver Schwartz support wider access
  enhance efficiency
• Dr Angela Smallwood
• University of Nottingham
• JISC project Specifying an ePortfolio
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/e-portfolio

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Web support for Lifelong Learning
admissions officers conference

• eGovernment developing infrastructure in
  education (and the health service)
• Educational goal lifelong learning
  School ? FE / HE / training ?employment
• UCAS application of the future a presentational
  ePortfolio selected from the applicants progress
  ePortfolio?

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Project Specifying an ePortfolio
admissions officers conference

• Enhanced learner information for flexible
  admissions and transitions into Higher Education
• Transfer of data FE? HE, joining up PDP
  practices and records across the transition
• Pilots of interoperable technology transfer
  learner information from UCAS into several
  University of Nottingham systems Admissions,
  Student Management System, eProgress File

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Web potential for admissions
admissions officers conference

• Structure E.g. The reference admissions staff
  able to transform it according to own priorities?
• Ease of updating E.g. The evolving reference
  for applicants from Access courses?
• Attachments Complementary material?
• Links To dated entries in electronic progress
  files authentic evidence?

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Schwartzs ideas for admissions
admissions officers conference

• Transparency detailed criteria for admission
  (?course entry profiles?)
• Candidates judged on potential as well as
  achievement tests / other evidence?
• Valid differentiation, esp. for borderline
  candidates and oversubscribed courses
• Feedback to unsuccessful candidates on request
• Efficiency and professionalism, including at
  least partial centralisation of the process

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Multi-purpose course entry profiles
admissions officers conference
Course entry profile provides course specific
criteria
Prompts used by candidate writing
partly-structured customised personal statement
Same criteria used by admissions tutor to produce
scored profile
Enabling computer-generated feedback
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Using enhanced personal statements
admissions officers conference

• Selecting differentiation, without interview?
• Widening participation complementing a
  borderline qualifications profile a basis for
  judging aptitude and potential reducing need
  for interviews?
• Recruiting (majority?) basis for
  tutor-applicant conversation at interview,
  improved matching of students to courses,
  induction?

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Centralise, systematise, computerise
admissions officers conference

• Centralised admissions depend on course leaders
  providing (Schwartzs) transparent criteria
  course entry profiles by another name?
• How far is centralising of admissions a
  systematisation which lends itself to
  computerisation? Could IT help more?
• Centralised admissions automation? - what are
  the limits?