Studies have shown (got a deadline and just don’t have the time to search google for this!) around 90% of what someone achieves is based on the circumstances he\/she is put in! Nuff said!<\/p>\n
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from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n The working classes have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n Bruce Charlton, reader in evolutionary psychiatry at Newcastle University, suggested that the low numbers of working-class students at elite universities was the “natural outcome” of IQ differences between classes.<\/em> Studies have shown (got a deadline and just don’t have the time to search google for this!) around 90% of what someone achieves is based on the circumstances he\/she is put in! Nuff said! from here: The working classes have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places … <\/p>\n
\nIn a paper shown to the Times Higher Education<\/a> magazine, Dr Charlton questioned the Government’s drive to get more students from poor backgrounds into top universities like Oxford and Cambridge.<\/em>
\nHe said: “The UK Government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes.<\/em>
\n“Yet in all this debate a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes.”<\/em>
\nThe fact that so few students from poor families get into Oxbridge is not down to “prejudice” but “meritocracy”, he said.<\/em>
\nThe Government criticised Dr Charlton’s comments. Higher education<\/a> minister Bill Rammell said: “These arguments have a definite tone of ‘people should know their place’.<\/em>
\n“There are young people with talent, ability and the potential to benefit from higher education who do not currently do so. That should concern us all.”<\/em>
\nSally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said: “It should come as little surprise that people who enjoy a more privileged upbringing have a better start in life.<\/em>
\n“It is up to all of us to ensure that not having access to the social and educational benefits that money provides is not a barrier to achieving one’s full potential.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"