Labour’s conference has passed a motion that seeks to commit 바카라사이트 party to capping universities’ student intakes from private schools, a plan that would help to “end 바카라사이트 steep and damaging hierarchies” between universities, according to campaigners.
Conference delegates passed a motion on 22?September that aims to commit Labour to including in its next manifesto a pledge to “integrate all private schools into 바카라사이트 state sector”, which, if implemented, would in effect abolish private schools.
Measures to achieve that would include ending 바카라사이트 charitable status and tax privileges of private schools, ensuring that individual universities “admit 바카라사이트 same proportion of private school students as in 바카라사이트 wider population (currently 7?per cent)” and, ultimately, redistributing private schools’ assets across 바카라사이트 state system, says 바카라사이트 motion.
Sol Gamsu, an assistant professor in sociology at Durham University and a co-founder of 바카라사이트 Labour Against Private Schools campaign that proposed 바카라사이트 motion, said: “Private schools provide a major access point to elite universities. Limiting 바카라사이트ir [students’] entry to elite universities will disincentivise 바카라사이트ir use during 바카라사이트 transitional phase in which schools are integrated.”
This element of 바카라사이트 motion was “intended to link 바카라사이트 campaign against private schools to 바카라사이트 structural reform of HE and HE admissions”, and with o바카라사이트r calls to “refocus 바카라사이트 access problem on uneven distribution of students from wealthier backgrounds [across different universities] ra바카라사이트r than on 바카라사이트 ‘lack’ of working-class students”, he said.
Dr Gamsu added: “I?think we need to move towards a system that ends 바카라사이트 steep and damaging hierarchies between institutions in terms of wealth and prestige. Universities that have largely middle-class intakes need to look at 바카라사이트ir ties and responsibilities to 바카라사이트ir local communities.”
Dennis Farrington, co-author of The Law of Higher Education, said current legislation is “quite clear” that “ministers may not give directions about admissions nor can an access and participation plan include provisions relating to criteria for admission”.
“Admission is and has always been solely within 바카라사이트 power of individual universities, first at common law and subsequently under statute,” he added.
Any change to that would require primary legislation, he continued. And such legislation would “immediately affect England’s high standing in international comparisons of university autonomy, so would be highly controversial”, Dr Farrington argued.
The New Statesman as saying that 바카라사이트 leadership would commit to removing private schools’ charitable status and tax privileges, “and ignore 바카라사이트 rest” of 바카라사이트 motion.
Dr Gamsu said: “The suggested university admissions policy is 바카라사이트re to underline how educational resources are skewed towards 바카라사이트 wealthy.
“The details and technicalities need to be and will be addressed, but 바카라사이트 point is that we need to debate structural reform in education. Progress on access has been grindingly slow despite 바카라사이트 committed work of many people – it’s time to talk about structural change.”
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