Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »
Tue 08 Aug 2009Testing the gender balance
The new system of entry into medical school aims to help achieve a 50/50 gender balance, writes BRIAN MOONEY
WRITING IN my education column in The Irish Timeslast September, when the details of the new HPat assessment was announced, I speculated that an attempt was being made to reduce the 60:40 advantage that females enjoyed in securing places in undergraduate medical degree programmes, based on the high scores achieved by them in the Leaving Certificate.
Choose a Subscription type - required
