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Addleshaws applicants to be quizzed on social roots

A welcome development, but the danger lies in what is done with this data. Once you have the data, inevitably there will be calls to alter the criteria for offering candidates positions. It is all too easy to make simplistic assumptions about candidates based on answers to such questions. For example, I went to a public school, but could only do so because I had a scholarship and a bursary. There's no way my parents could have paid the fees themselves. Fine to record that I went to a public school, but not to conclude (as some do) that my parents bought me privilege, or that I am part of some old school tie mafia.

8-Nov-2010

11:19 am