The World Motivation
Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.
“Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.”
Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.
We as a nation cannot be satisfied with our children suffering health problems through no fault of their own.
At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.
Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.
The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.
'Seinfeld' was an amazing show. It's iconic and defined a whole generation of comedy writers - but by their own admission, that show was about nothing.
Initially, I got admission in Hindu College, but it was far from my home in Malviya Nagar. Since I was modelling, too, I opted for Gargi.
Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission officers don't feel sorry for them, so they are not a preferred 'minority.'
Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?
What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.