He added: “I would remind Prof. Tuup that high school students are attracted by a very wide range of incomes and simply equating high schools with independent schools, where the vast majority of parents pay more than £ 100,000 for a child’s education, is like a comparison. of apples with pears.
“There are also general education schools in some areas with a richer reception of grammar, which underscores the inherent difficulty of the kind of approach that the Vice-Chancellor seems to be hinting at.”
Robert McCartney QC, president of the National Association of High Schools, said: “Instead of looking at the results and acting on them, universities are now introducing political and social engineering that doesn’t work. It is obviously discrimination.
“To accept as your criterion for refusing someone to enter a university that he has had the advantage of a better education than some others is rude. It’s kind of a reworking of the nonsense about vigilance, equality and diversity that’s been going on for the last 10 to 15 years. “
Robert Halfon, chairman of the Commons Electoral Commission for Education, said: “As far as I’m concerned, high schools are also public schools. So I don’t know why they made that distinction. “
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