ABSTRACT
In Chapter 5 we reviewed evidence that, in the majority of institutions studied in our research, good equal opportunities practices were not well embedded in selection systems for nursing and midwifery education. In other words, despite clear evidence of differential success rates among members of different ethnic groups, there was little evidence of any sustained, effective effort to ensure that, in selecting candidates for training, all those applying had a genuinely equal opportunity to be successful. Our results seem to be confirmed by subsequent work by the ENB which concluded that the substantial majority of institutions had not advanced beyond the expression of a generalised statement of intent to observe equal opportunities principles (ENB, 2000: para. 8.1).
