Champagning
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:13 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-e ... e-20712971
Amazed no one has commented on this yet.
I think that the unions response to this has been a shambles. Fforde has been so quick to jump on the moral high ground, hope he's taken some oxygen up there.
To me his comments make little sense - he's so busy saying how st andrews wants to attract students from "all backgrounds", which presumably really means 'deprived' backgrounds as the uni/bbc puts it, that he seems to have forgotten one thing:
StA has been milking Will/Kate to the nth degree - and having had a member of the royal family attending is naturally going to attract a load of toffs and wannabe toffs. some of whom will probably like pouring champagne on their heads, joining all male clubs and drinking lots of port. pretty much impossible to have one without the other. deal with it.
The natural conclusion from Fforde's comments is that having some toffs at the uni will put off people from 'deprived areas' from applying to StA; yet he fails to elaborate any further and actually specify how this would put them off.
As the figures in this article point out http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/2 ... university it's the, very sad, fact that very few students from deprived areas get the AAA you now need to get in, and actually StA isnt far behind Aberdeen in % terms and no one seems to be making this into a big issue there. Oh and what is one of the major reasons behind people now needing AAA to get in? because applications are massively higher than they used to be - and what is a major reason for this? that's right, the unis 2 fav toffs, Will & Kate.
Rant over.
Amazed no one has commented on this yet.
I think that the unions response to this has been a shambles. Fforde has been so quick to jump on the moral high ground, hope he's taken some oxygen up there.
To me his comments make little sense - he's so busy saying how st andrews wants to attract students from "all backgrounds", which presumably really means 'deprived' backgrounds as the uni/bbc puts it, that he seems to have forgotten one thing:
StA has been milking Will/Kate to the nth degree - and having had a member of the royal family attending is naturally going to attract a load of toffs and wannabe toffs. some of whom will probably like pouring champagne on their heads, joining all male clubs and drinking lots of port. pretty much impossible to have one without the other. deal with it.
The natural conclusion from Fforde's comments is that having some toffs at the uni will put off people from 'deprived areas' from applying to StA; yet he fails to elaborate any further and actually specify how this would put them off.
As the figures in this article point out http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/2 ... university it's the, very sad, fact that very few students from deprived areas get the AAA you now need to get in, and actually StA isnt far behind Aberdeen in % terms and no one seems to be making this into a big issue there. Oh and what is one of the major reasons behind people now needing AAA to get in? because applications are massively higher than they used to be - and what is a major reason for this? that's right, the unis 2 fav toffs, Will & Kate.
Rant over.