The selection of students into professional training programmes in psychology has implica tions not only for the qua ¡ity of psychological services provided, but also for the psychological wellbeing of the South African population as a whole. This is reflective of broader social challenges related to questions of equity, redress and social justice. This article provides a critical evaluation of the extent to which institutions of higher learning in South Africa have, over the past 10 years, developed processes and adopted structures in order to align their selection criteria and procedures with developments taking place in the broader South African context. In order to contextualise this discussion against a background of selection trends over the past decade, a small survey of selection practices and intake figures in eight clinical training programmes was conducted. Quantitative data, in the form of intake figures broken down into 'race' and gender categories, were analysed for trends, and a thematic content analysis was conducted on a set of qualitative questions. The results indicated certain important trends and practices with regard to selection into clinical train ing programmes.
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