The ill-thought-out ideas issuing from Britain’s prime ministerial candidates are a cause for alarm, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
The ill-thought-out ideas issuing daily from the candidates to be the UK’s prime minister are a cause for alarm
‘Truss’s proposal cements the elitist assumption that Oxbridge should be further assisted to cream off the top achievers each year.’‘Truss’s proposal cements the elitist assumption that Oxbridge should be further assisted to cream off the top achievers each year.’Last modified on Mon 1 Aug 2022 20.15 BSThe Tory leadership race has descended into slapstick politics, and it seems to have no boundaries.
The idea puts a further premium on exam performance as an indicator of future success, a facile obsession that has little to do with education: Truss has longby exam-centric Chinese schools. Worse, it cements the elitist assumption that Oxbridge should be further assisted to cream off the top achievers each year to attain ever greater heights of academic quality and status.
Universities do have a role in social engineering and should try to widen their social base. But that applies to them all. In some parts of Britain they are the most potent agency of the ailing levelling-up agenda. They bring creativity and talent, public money and graduate employmentfrom which they have been drained over the past half century. It is these places that need the brightest students if they are to compete nationally and internationally.
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