Wednesday, 23 May 2012

...and Comrade Clegg makes a proposal

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, proposed yesterday that universities should be made to favour promising state school applicants over private school applicants, even if the latter had better grades, as a remedy for the lack of social mobility in Britain.
In response, Dr Tim Hands, Master of Magdalen College School in Oxford, described the plan as an ‘old-style communist creation of a closed market’ which would be a betrayal by 'privileged politicians' of the 'many parents (who) make huge sacrifices in order to get the best possible education for their children.'

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