"Julian Fowler" wrote in message
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Most British uni's have been established since WW2. We have approx 100
of
them.

Being British, naturally petty snobbery comes in, and those unis who
are older say they are better in some way, with nothing to base this
absurd
claim on.

Of course ... as long as you regard things
like Nobel Prizes as being "nothing".

They are pretty meaningless you are right. BTW, Birmingham uni perfected
RADAR in WW2 and Manchester the computer after WW2, the snotties were too
interested in teaching Ancient Greek.

The "ancient" uni's,

They may be ancient, but that are not "uni's".
The word is "university".

uni in the trade me dear boy.

that pre-date redbricks, think they are superior in
perverse way way.

"Perverse"? As in "provide superlative facilities for undergraduate
education together with world-class research facilities"??

So do others.

Predominantly Oxbridge has become
a clique of privately educated people,
who later in life only give jobs to those
who go to certain private schools and
went to Oxbridge.

"Has become"?

You are right. It should have been "always was".

This might have been
a true statement about Oxford and
Cambridge 40-50 years ago, but
is really not the case any more.

How naive. Read Jeremy Paxman's book. Most top jobs in this country are
filled with public school/Oxbridge. He points all this out.

In any case, in today's job market the
importance of the source (and
subject, and grade) of degree diminishes
rapidly - outside of graduate recruitment,
employers look for practical and successful
experience, skills, and knowledge rather
than baseline academic qualifications.

As a general case yes you are right in the real world. At the top, where
power is, it is very different. In certain key jobs in the judiciary,
foreign office, Whitehall, top staff of the military, it is nearly all
public school/Oxbridge with the odd non public school kid thrown in, who are
usually far brighter than the rest, as to be accepted into thre clan you
have to be brilliant; they can all be public school buffoons as long as they
went to the right school and have a silly puff like arcccent. In the
military it may be certain public schools and then straight into a certain
snotty usless chocolate soldier regiment.

It appears to them that the rest of us are not really intelligent enough to
do these jobs. Or more realistically they are keeping a gravy train
running for themselves.



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