John in Scotland

'Lotteries should be used for school selection' - Telegraph

And if we go there, why not lotteries for tertiary education?

Anyone with 2 A Level passes or more has their name put into the hat. Too many toffs at Oxford and Cambridge. That urgently needs to be sorted out.

Popeye

Socialist solutions to social engineering experiments gone wrong invariably make the situation worse.

tito

Universities should have whoever they like (IE, the best that want to go there)

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tito

Typical rubbish. If all of us can't do well, none of us can.

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g hall

Another insane idea from the Ministry of blue sky thinking and WE pay these lackwits

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John in Scotland

Very handsomely, too.

Scary atavar, by the way, Mr Hall. The phrase "1000 year Reich" springs to mind.

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Ea of Dune

What a stupid idea. Putting people that can't be bothered to work hard enough into a top university will not make them better academics. Kids who are super clever and from poorer backgrounds have the ability to do well in this country and don't need to be patronised by ******* like Labour lowering the bar to try and make them feel "better" .

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John in Scotland

And I take it that you believe the same of Secondary Schools.

Cleopatra

I actually agree with a lottery system. The present system is only advantageous to children of middle class parents, you know, the children who can afford to have a mother at home and make the right contacts at mother and baby groups to find out the schools in the local area that keep out the "riff raff".

Middle class parents can generally afford to either send their children to private schools or buy homes in areas where schools are doing well. It is mainly the middle class parents that send their children to religious schools, even though they do not practise the faith.

The only thing the current system has done is benefit middle class parents and children, not the working class.

I think education should be equal to all, I think all religious schools should be abolished and all fee paying schools.

I particularly agree with this comment from the link:

The only problem I can see is the problem of siblings if this was brought into effect.

kernow

I agree 100%!