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Revisions to Denmark’s university admissions system—including a greater focus on interviews—could favour the children of the rich and well educated, an analyst has warned.
Denmark’s Quota 2 guidelines have been revamped for 2020 and now recommend a greater role for interviews in the university application process. Quota 2 covers selection criteria set by individual institutions, as opposed to Quota 1 criteria, which are based purely on the applicant’s grade point average.
But Jens-Peter Thomsen, a senior researcher at Vive, the Danish centre for social science research, told the Forskerforum news website that the revised guidelines could put children from less educated backgrounds at a disadvantage.
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