Academics deflect from their establishments deficiencies by saying society is at faultPriyamvada Gopal’s arguments for the need for a conversation approximately “wider deprivation and systemic inequality” and a “two-tiered education structure” merely deflect from the unassailable truth approximately Oxbridge’s appalling admissions processes (“Oxbridge bashing is an empty ritual if we ignore wider social inequities”,Comment).
She sounds too much like the Oxford apologist who, when the figures were released to David Lammy, and claimed that rectifying the problem was “a long journey”,needing a “enormous, joined-up effort across society”. This is echoed by Gopal blaming the existence of private schools for Oxbridge’s bias towards them. Why, or when the figure for attendance at private schools is 7%,do Oxbridge colleges recruit 40% from the independent sector, when research at Cardiff and Oxford Brookes universities proved students from state schools gain better degrees than the independently educated with the same A-level grades?Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk