John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SONIA SODHA IN THE GUARDIAN
“They are so clever. So how can Oxford University get it so wrong on access?
“If it doesn’t make more effort to admit young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the government should step in’
"So how can Oxford University get it so wrong on access?"
Seems to me it is a prestigious university's job to keep standards up and to keep attracting applications from the very best qualified in the world.
There is no other way to be in the top.
It is not the job of the universities to see to it that this or that arbitrary social quota is filled.
I assume that they are doing what I describe, but if they are not, if they are being prejudiced, of course that is wrong. But that requires proving, and you haven't done that.
Just citing a list of numbers as Guardian has done proves nothing.
It's a hard thing to say, but a true one, that intellectual talent, like other talents, is not equally distributed among all people.
