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Wits to admit more top rural, black and coloured health sciences students 

In a bid to improve the diversity of the student demographics in its health sciences department, Wits University has announced that 60% of its admissions for the Faculty of Health Sciences from 2016 onwards will be set aside for top rural, black, coloured and less-privileged applicants. 

This comes as a result of Wits revising its admission policy for all programmes after recommendations were made by a task team commissioned by the university’s Vice-Chancellor.

According to a press release put out by the university today, “40% of the places [within the Faculty of Health Sciences] will be offered to the top performing candidates based on academic merit. The remaining 60% will be offered as follows: approximately 20% of the places will be offered to top performing rural learners; approximately 20% of the places will be offered to top performing learners from quintile 1 and 2 schools; and approximately 20% of the places will be allocated to top performing African and Coloured learners.” Quintile 1 and 2 schools refers to underprivileged schools, in case you’re wondering.

The policy will kick off in 2015 for those applying for admission in 2016; applicants for the 2016 academic year will have to complete and submit an online “biographical questionnaire”  in order to help the university place students according to the new policy.

“Wits University is committed to being a demographically-diverse and cosmopolitan world-class institution furthering the Constitutional vision of a democratic and non-racial South Africa,” Wits says. 

[Source – Wits University. Image – Shutterstock]

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