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Originally Posted by OliverHolmes  "It just so happens..."?
The universities can claim simple recognition of academic merit - but we all know academic achievement is intrinsically linked to social class stratification. |
So what if universities select on academic merit? What should they do instead? And so what if academic ability is correlated with family income, etc.?
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Originally Posted by glenda2007
Australian uni entrance should be changed to the US Model which requires mandatory interviews, essays etc. to better gauge their applicants which will be supported by SAT results or in our case VCE.
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A lot of universities already do that, take Medicine for example. Further more there is no "mandatory" "interviews, essays etc." in the sense that the Government forces universities to adopt such practices. Universities decide for themselves how they will admit and select students.
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Originally Posted by humphdogg I've seen several studies on this, and I'm still not certain. I went to a private school and have seen several of my friends drop out of university. But then again, plenty of my school friends are still at uni, and I also know plenty of public school graduates who've dropped out of uni. |
As I am aware there is a paper from Monash University, using a sample of Monash University students, showing for a
GIVEN ENTER/UAI, public school grads tend to get higher uni marks than private school grads, though the effect only lasts for about a year. Furthermore, I recall that the study simply treated a 70 in Arts as equivalent to a 70 in law. So some caution is warranted when interpreting their conclusions.