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UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is looking to give up its reliance on state funding, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The state university system has been starved of funds as California wrestles with a budget deficit. According to the paper Anderson currently receives a $5.6m a year subsidy, which it hopes to have completely replaced with private donations by 2015. Self-sufficiency would also give it more freedom to raise programme fees.
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Tests of general mental ability are common for those applying for a job or for a university course. However, research from Indiana’s Kelley School of Business, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, suggests that the tools used to check whether such tests are biased—against ethnic minorities or women, for example—are themselves flawed. “The irony is that for 40 years we have been trying to assess potential test bias with a biased procedure,” says Herman Aguinis, one of the authors, “and we now see that countless people may have been denied or given opportunities unfairly.”
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