A report on the formal investigation into student applications at St. George's Hospital Medical School was published in 1988 by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), gaining media attention after concluding that London's St. George's Hospital Medical School, with its higher admission rate from ethnic minorities relative to other London medical colleges, used computer software to discriminate against women and people with non-European sounding names, so reducing their chance of being called for interview.
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| - A report on the formal investigation into student applications at St. George's Hospital Medical School was published in 1988 by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), gaining media attention after concluding that London's St. George's Hospital Medical School, with its higher admission rate from ethnic minorities relative to other London medical colleges, used computer software to discriminate against women and people with non-European sounding names, so reducing their chance of being called for interview. (en)
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| - A report on the formal investigation into student applications at St. George's Hospital Medical School was published in 1988 by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), gaining media attention after concluding that London's St. George's Hospital Medical School, with its higher admission rate from ethnic minorities relative to other London medical colleges, used computer software to discriminate against women and people with non-European sounding names, so reducing their chance of being called for interview. The CRE carried out a formal investigation after two St George's senior lecturers, Joe Collier and Aggrey Burke, informed them, in 1986, that their medical school used computer software to unfairly screen medical student applications. In February 1988, the CRE concluded that contrary to the Race Relations Act 1976, St George's had directly discriminated on racial grounds, via its computer admissions software and selection process. The findings demonstrated how an institution that appeared to have adequate equal opportunities policies, was also shown to simultaneously be discriminatory, and that "the prejudice of a computer is no less than that of its designers." The investigation led to changes in medical school admissions processes throughout the UK. (en)
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