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    1. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 2 Jul 2021

      Reality check - private schools educate 6.5% of UK students but make up 33% of domestic Oxbridge acceptances (down from 44% ten years ago). Going to a private school is still a massive leg up compared to state schools.https://www.ft.com/content/bbb7fe58-0908-4f8e-bb1a-081a42a045b7 …

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    2. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 2 Jul 2021

      Private schools produce ~25% of students with top grades (33% of acceptances, remember) but this overstates the underlying talent since private schools are much better at coaching to the exam.

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    3. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 2 Jul 2021

      Private schools also much more on it with encouraging students to apply. Many good state school students won't apply even if they could get in, because their school doesn't encourage them or because they think Oxbridge "isn't for them"

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    4. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 2 Jul 2021

      The underlying problem is that there is this massive binary around whether you did/didn't go to Oxbridge which is completely unjustified. Fundamentally there are way more students who would do well at Oxbridge than there are available places, probably 3-4x as many.

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      macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 2 Jul 2021

      Dominance of Oxbridge in UK public life is self perpetuating because the universities get first pick over the most talented students. The value added by the teaching is minimal (all the Oxbridge academics I know personally happily admit this).

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        1. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 2 Jul 2021

          Anyway sorry to everyone who followed me because of quant or crypto stuff and is now getting my opinions on the UK education system, back to normal programming soon

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        2. tanguy bretagne / bzh macro‏ @pauleluard 2 Jul 2021
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          Same goes in the end with french grandes ecoles and in a sense it’s not that bad. Esp as it’s hard to game the system then (some who goes to ulm is really smart, and private tutoring wont get you there). More can be done to push people into that system from more diverse bground.

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        3. R‏ @Ersquare 2 Jul 2021
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          The French system is a lot less predicated on money. Your home address (which public school you go to) and whether your parents are teachers/academics play maybe too much of a role, but that’s less of an issue imo. Theoretically, just opening more places could solve it.

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        1. d-spike capital‏ @dopamine_uptake 2 Jul 2021
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          Really? The ones I know certainly don't admit this.

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