{"id":72644,"date":"2025-02-27T07:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72644"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:48:22","slug":"medical-schools-let-in-disadvantaged-students-with-lower-grades-to-boost-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/27\/medical-schools-let-in-disadvantaged-students-with-lower-grades-to-boost-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical schools \u2018let in disadvantaged students with lower grades to boost diversity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zSG2g.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=1088&amp;y=377&amp;s=96&amp;d=96\" alt=\"Five per cent of students at UK medical schools in 2021 were from working-class backgrounds - E+\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Medical schools are letting in disadvantaged students with lower grades to boost diversity, a report claims. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/medical-schools-let-in-disadvantaged-students-with-lower-grades-to-boost-diversity\/ar-AA1zSB65?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=67b501537238481ed2bea3d7a6957627&amp;ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Medical schools are letting in disadvantaged students with lower grades to boost diversity, a report claims. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Medical-Schools-Council.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72646,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72644\/revisions\/72646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}