The Existing Problems and the Possible Reformation of UK University Admission System

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10.2991/assehr.k.220105.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Deferred Acceptance; Stability; Strategy-proof; Pareto-efficiency; UK university admission system

Abstract

This paper shows the current situation and state of UK’s university admission about how it is run generally and points out a few problems related to such matching mechanism between students and universities such as the shortcomings in stability, strategy-proof and Pareto-efficiency. In 2015, the UK government introduced the new A-level rules to decouple the AS and A-level exam which means the AS exam will not longer count towards A-level final results. By comparing the Deferred Acceptance algorithm matching with the current one used by the UK university matching system, we can see that result shows that DA mechanism gives a better matching outcome related to stability and strategy-proof. The shortcomings under the DA matching are also shown in the following such as lacking of Pareto-efficiency. At last, the paper illustrates some possible policies that can be implemented under DA matching and how these policies give a better matching between students and universities in the UK. The paper uses comparing method and gives a possible alternative method to make the matching between students and universities in the UK more stabler and equal.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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AU  - Lidi Fang
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TI  - The Existing Problems and the Possible Reformation of UK University Admission System
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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