Dear All
Recently Alan Milburn spoke about elite professions such as lawyers and doctors effectively being a closed shop to working class kids.
Who operates these closed shops?
Recently Alan Milburn spoke about elite professions such as lawyers and doctors effectively being a closed shop to working class kids.
Who operates these closed shops?
The middle class.
Why has there limited progress over a considerable amount of years?
Why has there limited progress over a considerable amount of years?
The middle class.
In order to win back working class voters, New Labour has decided to play the ‘working class’ card.
Lord Mandelson has described universities efforts as being inadequate in relation to recruitment of working class children.
In order to set the playing field level; he is considering positive discrimination and has said that there was a “strong case” for taking teenagers’ background into consideration when they applied and that universities should be flexible about the grades they demand.
He specifically pointed out elite institutions as those most at fault and he would be looking closely at university admissions.
Mandelson goes further by saying;
“Any institution that wants to use greater costs to the student to fund excellence must face an equal expectation to ensure that its services remain accessible to more than just those with the ability to pay.”
In other words stop rejecting the poor on the basis of class.
In a shot across the bows he warned that he was impatient about the progress made in getting more poor students to university. In a speech to university leaders; he makes the point;
“I think we have to ask why, for all the work in the sector and all the seriousness with which it has tackled this question, are we still making only limited progress in widening access to higher education to young people from poorer backgrounds especially at our most selective universities”?
The answer effectively lies with the social networks that prevail in universities right across Britain.
A way of describing it, could be to use the word, ‘Cartels’, interlinking organisations who promote an interlinking culture across the entire system.
Although lip service will given to Mandelson and paper produced, the fundamental problem of the people running universities will not change.
It is a discriminatory middle class clique.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
In order to win back working class voters, New Labour has decided to play the ‘working class’ card.
Lord Mandelson has described universities efforts as being inadequate in relation to recruitment of working class children.
In order to set the playing field level; he is considering positive discrimination and has said that there was a “strong case” for taking teenagers’ background into consideration when they applied and that universities should be flexible about the grades they demand.
He specifically pointed out elite institutions as those most at fault and he would be looking closely at university admissions.
Mandelson goes further by saying;
“Any institution that wants to use greater costs to the student to fund excellence must face an equal expectation to ensure that its services remain accessible to more than just those with the ability to pay.”
In other words stop rejecting the poor on the basis of class.
In a shot across the bows he warned that he was impatient about the progress made in getting more poor students to university. In a speech to university leaders; he makes the point;
“I think we have to ask why, for all the work in the sector and all the seriousness with which it has tackled this question, are we still making only limited progress in widening access to higher education to young people from poorer backgrounds especially at our most selective universities”?
The answer effectively lies with the social networks that prevail in universities right across Britain.
A way of describing it, could be to use the word, ‘Cartels’, interlinking organisations who promote an interlinking culture across the entire system.
Although lip service will given to Mandelson and paper produced, the fundamental problem of the people running universities will not change.
It is a discriminatory middle class clique.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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