She Got In..This Mans Daughter Did Not! What Allyuh Tink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...istol.html

Quote:A single mother with no A-levels has beaten thousands of privately-educated students to win a place at Bristol University.
Divorcee April Baker, 28, has four C-grade GCSEs and an HND in computer science.
Her acceptance follows a string of cases of outstanding public school or top state school pupils being rejected, thrusting Bristol to the centre of a national controversy over accusations of social engineering.
Public school heads have accused the institution of adopting quotas which favour lower achievers over the best qualified candidates.
But Miss Baker was adamant last night that she won her place on the computer science degree course on merit.


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The man whose daughter was rejected:  Trevor Phillip.  here is who he is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Phillips

British born Guyanan parents..a man who counts cabinet ministers/prime ministers among his friends, an important and senior member of the British Labour Party

His former wife and the girls mother is an Indian... Asha Bhownagary

the girl Sushilla is a brilliant student, straight A-levels, from the most expensive of british public schools.

Quote:The row over universities rejecting public school pupils took a new twist yesterday when the newly appointed chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality revealed to The Telegraph that his privately educated daughter had been turned down by Bristol University.
Sushila Phillips, 18, whose father, Trevor, is a prominent member of the Labour Party and who chaired the London Assembly until his recent appointment, believes that she was rejected by Bristol because she attends Westminster School, one of Britain's most prestigious independent schools, which charges day pupils fees of £12,000.
The university has been at the centre of a political storm following its decision to give preferential treatment to children from state schools. Its rejection of Sushila has incensed Trevor Phillips, who numbers many Cabinet ministers among his friends and whose job as head of the CRE involves speaking out against discrimination.
Talking from his family's home in Highgate, north London, Mr Phillips said that Bristol's rejection of his daughter - who has an outstanding academic record - had shocked family and friends.
"We are extremely surprised that she did not receive an offer. Though I have no disagreement with greater access, I would have hoped that universities and the Government would have a slightly m

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...chool.html

so what allyuh think..that the school is discriminating..... ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

but the point is Phillips daughter is not the only 'high class' application rejected.  it appears Bristol does it all the time, in favor of 'lesser' students.

is that a right and good policy ::confused:: ::confused::

BTW...Ketchim shud love this Guyana  Trevor Phillips.....a very smart man

read on:  http://alt.books.george-orwell.narkive.c...wind-blows

Quote:his beard and big hair, Phillips led countless sit-ins, espousing a mix of
Black Panther radicalism and socialism. According to Sir Tom Shebbeare, a
friend and contemporary, Phillips was a sophisticated student who would
rather seek "consensus than conflict".
Encouraged by Clarke, now education secretary, in 1978 he became the first
black president of the National Union of Students (NUS). He began to forge
enduring ties. He befriended Mandelson, then a member of the British Youth
Council closely connected with the NUS.
Then came Cuba. Phillips, Mandelson and Clarke travelled to the country as
British delegates to a conference of socialists and communists. Also there
was Paul Boateng, now chief secretary to the Treasury. Phillips led a battle
to overturn a motion supporting the Soviet Union.
Although a life in politics looked likely, Phillips balked at the prospect
of endless constituency meetings and applied for a job as a researcher at
London Weekend Television. He was interviewed by John Birt, now the
government's "blue skies" thinker, thus connecting with another charmed
circle.
He quickly moved up to become presenter of the London Programme, then editor
and head of current affairs before setting up his own production company,
Pepper Productions, which made the acclaimed Windrush series about the first
black immigrants to Britain in 1948.
After a spell as chairman of the London assembly, last year he was appointed
head of the Commission for Racial Equality by David Blunkett. The
organisation was at a low point in its 27-year history, riven by infighting
and in shock from the resignation of Gurbux Singh, the previous chairman,
after a drink-fuelled row with a police officer outside Lord's cricket
ground.
Phillips's appointment was greeted with guarded optimism by black groups. Dr
Vince Padi, director of the African and African-Caribbean People's Advisory
Group, commented: "He has good aspirations. But politics gets in the way."
His aim was to learn "a couple of extra languages" and concentrate more on
his production company. His £94,000 salary is less than he was making from
writing polemical newspaper articles, but he made it clear that the 3Ã…-year
job is only a stop on his odyssey. "I'm still young enough to have a couple
of large jobs in future," he said.
He is so well connected that he can go in several directions. Anywhere, in
fact, the wind takes him.

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BTW...Ketchim shud love this Guyana  Trevor Phillips.....a very smart man
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he would have loved old school politics had he grown up in BG

good man ....pity he born deh