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Originally Posted by OliverHolmes Private school students scoop scholarships | theage.com.au
Wow.
'Equitable access to education'?
A higher education system that is 'representative of the broad community'?
Isn't it refreshing to know that social stratification continues to be reproduced and confirmed by Victorian universities?
The message: if you want educational success, and scholarship chances, ensure you exhibit the appropriate (learned) cultural and social capital courtesy of a thoroughly inequitable secondary education system.
Otherwise - bad luck.
To all recent VCE graduates from public schools - how does it feel to be perpetually disadvantaged beyond your control? Fun, isn't it?  |
MediterraneanM, please read the first post again. Carefully. Notice anything in particular there? Sarcasm? Check. Not-so-subtle swipes at private schools? Check. Sarcasm again? Check. Just look at the vocabulary used. "Social stratification" ? Don't tell me you can't pick SOMETHING up from that? Given that you finished VCE last year, if you did VCE English, you'd have even studied how to analyse such pieces of writing.
Perhaps the nuance was a bit unfamiliar in the realms of the internet, but I believe that I have responded to the initial post directly and have not delved off on a tangent.
Feel free to ask me for clarification of what I mean if you're not convinced.