! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
New guidelines are being drawn up by the British government to force universities to take more students from ethnic and underpriveleged backgrounds.
The new guidelines – which will only apply in England of course – will mean that universities will have to take into account ethnicity, whether the applicants parents went to university and whether they have been in a council care home instead of considering the application on merit. This means that applicants who are Grade A students, white, English and not from a broken home could miss out on a university place so the university can fulfill its “diversity” quota with a student who isn’t suited to university education but is black or asian and from a broken home.
Positive discrimination isn’t.
No, don’t tell me, let me guess…..This won’t apply to Scotland, right?
Would it suprise you to find that it doesn’t apply to Scotland? I’m guessing the answer’s no. 🙂
You’re right, education is devolved and admissions policy is a matter for the Scottish Executive.