Currently a student at Edinburgh Uni, this culture is definitely hard to avoid. According to a lecturer it's also something a lot of the publicly schooled teachers are struggling with. Got told a couple months ago the university's policy regarding care-leavers was keeping "hard working" private school students down by a coursemate. It's baffling to come across.
Great wee article. A visit in 1993 to an Edinburgh University open day saw local kids like me from Penicuik overlooked / blanked by lecturers in favour private school kids. Having escaped school for day we went to uni in student garb unlike the well drilled armies of blazer adorned place hunter from the higher ranks. I ended up going to the college of art, doing a planning degree with a social demographic similar to the norm.
1969-72. Strathclyde. I started at 17. French tutorial in First Year. English boys (19/20) in same tutorial. They spoke to us as if we were peasants......of course, we were....working class from East Kilbride; first in family at uni, etc. Our tutor never once called them out for their tone ,etc
Class.
The English cancer. Actually, worse than cancer, for it appears cures for cancer are being discovered as we speak.
No such cure for the cruel and pathetic disease that condemns a person just as soon as they open their mouth.
It is our undoing.
Currently a student at Edinburgh Uni, this culture is definitely hard to avoid. According to a lecturer it's also something a lot of the publicly schooled teachers are struggling with. Got told a couple months ago the university's policy regarding care-leavers was keeping "hard working" private school students down by a coursemate. It's baffling to come across.
Grim to hear this is still going on. Hope you are thriving despite the idiots.
Great wee article. A visit in 1993 to an Edinburgh University open day saw local kids like me from Penicuik overlooked / blanked by lecturers in favour private school kids. Having escaped school for day we went to uni in student garb unlike the well drilled armies of blazer adorned place hunter from the higher ranks. I ended up going to the college of art, doing a planning degree with a social demographic similar to the norm.
Eery echoes of my experience at Aberdeen Uni around the same time.
1969-72. Strathclyde. I started at 17. French tutorial in First Year. English boys (19/20) in same tutorial. They spoke to us as if we were peasants......of course, we were....working class from East Kilbride; first in family at uni, etc. Our tutor never once called them out for their tone ,etc
Why does this not surprise me in the slightest?