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DDA - are uni obiliged to do something?
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Probably the affect on my views is that I'm in a very rural county, and therefore the majority of people I come across are all private school kids from extremely posh backgrounds.
There's bound to be nice people around out there, but I've yet to meet one.0 -
Probably the affect on my views is that I'm in a very rural county, and therefore the majority of people I come across are all private school kids from extremely posh backgrounds.
There's bound to be nice people around out there, but I've yet to meet one.
Can't people from posh backgrounds and private schools be "nice"?0 -
Oldernotwiser wrote: »Can't people from posh backgrounds and private schools be "nice"?
They can be, but I've yet to meet one. Most of them enjoy shouting or looking down on you.0 -
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melancholly wrote: »actually, i met more 'offputting' people on open days and at interview than i actually met there.... i think most get screened out by the interview process!
Quite possibly.
There is bound to be more at the interview stage I guess as they tend to come from schools that encourage applicants.
My friend's daughter applied because she was fed up with people at her sixth form thinking it was only those from the public schools who should bother applying. Also she lives in the 'deprived' end of our city and was shocked at the way some of her fellow 6th form students viewed the area and people who live there.
It's a shame more able students like her don't have the courage to go for it - too many still think it is out of their league!0 -
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I have to be honest, you come across as having an extremely large chip on your shoulder and either an inferiority, or a superiority complex.....not quite sure which!!
Whichever way, I've made my judgements based on my own experiences. It's not just one person, and pretty much all the cases I've been involved in over the years have been the same. When my views are based on facts that I've obtained, I've no reason to change them.0 -
I have a very good friend who went for an interview at Oxford. She was asked questions in her interview that she could have absolutely no hope of knowing (she studied Japanese) without actually visiting Japan - as a person with no means of getting to Japan, with parents unwilling to support her at all, it was clearly obvious that her face didn't 'fit' from the moment she walked in. For that reason, I don't regard an Oxbridge degree as being worth anything - it's very, very obvious that they don't particularly want "riff-raff" in there.
Yet SOAS actually offered her an unconditional offer without interview, such was her strength.
I'm very, very surprised the UK hasn't adopted the Polish model of basing university entry solely on results in school. Here, everyone that applies to a course is ranked solely on the basis of these results - with the best getting in. This can mean that the most popular courses have very, very high requirements - computer science at the best universities can demand as high as 92-3% across all 'Matura' subjects (equal to A-levels).
This would put a stop to bias at Oxbridge once and for all. Of course, that wouldn't do for Oxbridge - they can't have fair, transparent admissions policies because..because...the unwashed masses might get in!From Poland...with love.
They are (they're) sitting on the floor.
Their books are lying on the floor.
The books are sitting just there on the floor.0 -
WIth no universal examination system that system would be hard to implement. I am also a firm believer that good grades at school do not necessarily make a good university student, not the way the current school exams work, which are a memory test more than anything.0
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Is it kind of hard to standardise, as there will always be problems with a standardised testing system. Do you adjust every 5 or 10 years to allow for the percentile change in intelligence, or do you leave it as it is for years on end? I like the fact that you can do both vocational and theory-based qualifications at the same time, especialy if you want to work in an industry which requires both.
There is a stigma around certain qualifications, as it is thought that they are easy, and I can attest they are not. I remember the majority of second-year students worrying like crazy to get their marks up, but luckily I was at one of the best colleges in the area for media (around 1/2 the second year applied to and got places at Bournemouth, an extremely hard uni to get in with regards to media) Whereas there's a stigma with my uni, as there has only been 3 or 4 graduations so the scores will be lower, but its actually a really good uni.** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
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