I see for the first time EVER the number of new students at Cambridge who come from private schools has dropped below 50%.
Instead of proclaiming this as a necessary, if far too late, movement in the right direction the Saturday Telegraph led on the scandal. The scandal that private school pupils were being discriminated against.
Since 7% of students go to private schools they are still 7 times more likely to get students into Cambridge. Strange discrimination.
So let’s put it right. Having got at least 7 times more students into Oxbridge for centuries let’s have a policy that only 1% of students at top universities can come from private schools.
Just to redress the balance.
It would be interesting to see what this means for top jobs in the law, medicine, business and the media in coming years. After all if huge numbers of top staff are picked from just 7% of the population that must mean that a very large percent of top jobs are held by less intelligent, over promoted, second raters.
Think what we could do for productivity and growth if we championed the best in society?
Come on PM, you know it makes sense.
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I would prefer if government, media, law etc had a moratorium on hiring from Oxbridge as a way to redress the balance. I wonder if those fields were dominated by Durham, Manchester, Liverpool or any of the other 100+ universities across the country, how much more meritocratic things would be.