Winchester schools

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Does anybody have an idea of the current ratio of 12/13ys applicants to number of places at Winchest College. Also is a cheque book the main requirement for Pilgrims Sch or is there also a complusory brain search?

There can only be one Lord Chancellor at any one time and Eton supplied more than her fair share of them. My point being OE's don't particularly need the kind of barristers' chamber your DH referred to in order to reach the top of the Law profession. Like Colleger said, 'anyone that judges a whole group of people based on where they were educated are rather thick', and thickos don't go far in life, I'm afraid. But you're right, we don't discriminate anyone in any shape, colour, creed, race and everything else.

I don't know why you send you DC to school I hope that mine will turn out to be decent people if they achieve half of the things the lawyer Imran Khan has achieve I will be very proud of them. So frankly I am not impressed by how many Etonians have become Lord Chancellor, prime minister or even the King of England for that matter. I don't care if Eton opens the door to every high office in England I would like my children to turn out like Imran Khan a self effacing lawyer who was not afraid to take on the establishment and other unfashionable causes.

If you like Imran Khan so much then you should go and marry him. You don't have to be impressed with Eton; Eton is not there to impress you and believe me, there are/were many OE's who have/had taken on more than 10 Imran Khans can do or have done. I suggest you go and do some research before you make a fool of yourself.

I've done as you suggested "some research" into Imran Khan and it has been most informative. You may be disappointed to know that I am not the only one who admires him. He was voted by other lawyers as lawyer of the year, at the time the following was said about him "it is right that a man should be recognised for his commitment to justice and the law. It is not just Khan?s contribution to the Lawrences? victory, it is also his contribution to the whole profession,"
He's represented Victoria Climbie parents, he has represented others who have been victims of racial abuse and been involved in major terrorists trials including the London bombing. According to Radio 4 tonight his actions were instrumental in the over turning of the law of double jeopardy which has lead to the timely conviction of the murderers of Stephen Lawrence and Julie Hogg.

With the bizarre comment: "If you like Imran Khan so much then you should go and marry him" and lets not forget "there are/were many OE's who have/had taken on more than 10 Imran Khans can do or have done." I suggest that the only person peteneras making a fool of himself is you.

He may be voted lawyer of the year but that was some 12 years ago due to the Steven Lawrence case which Imran freely admits was the spark that brought him the limelight. I need some very hefty convincing a newly qualified lawyer as he was then (just 18 months after qualifying when the Lawrence case was thrust onto him) was so instrumental that a 800-year-old law got scrapped ultimately which eventually brought limited justice to the Lawrence family some 19 years later.

No, let?s not delude ourselves over this nonsense. The true power, the typhoon, that ultimately blew open the Steven Lawrence case and perhaps wrecked the 800-year-old double jeopardy principle of law in the process was one Nelson Mandela.

No doubt, now having qualified for 20 years and more experienced, Imran is a very good lawyer today fighting against injustices for the underdogs, etc. but don?t forget, the private prosecution brought by the Lawrences in the mid-90?s was unsuccessful; and last week?s success in court was not due to any dazzling legal performances but some tremendous scientific discovery more like. So the legal community has nothing to celebrate - that privilege belongs to the scientific community.

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I dont claim to know anything about the law of double jeopardy law but according to the interesting program on radio 4 last night Imran Khan knew that private prosecution would not be successful but by attempting it it was brought about the beginning of the end in the law of double jeopardy. I also personally admire people who achieve things but remain self effacing.
I mentioned him in my earlier posting because I still remain unconvinced that in 2012 the "old boy network" is as alive and well as many on MN believe. Maybe for my age group now late 40's (!) maybr I'm being naive but I don't believe in this multi cultural society that we now live in it will have such an impact on my DC's.

The area that I work in is still very much old boys' network still. Most of senior management, if not all, are ex public school. I hope it will change but I'm in my late 40s and I've seen no real change at senior management level since I started working in this field some 25 years ago.

On the main topic: WinColl is very selective; amongst the most academic schools in the country. Few state schools can educate as well as the private sector, and NONE can educate as well as Winchester

Peter Symonds is a great college; many of its students-and especially its Oxbridge acceptees-were previously at private schools. It does well in grade terms, but is not highly academic and barely pushes beyond the curriculum. The constant acceptance of ~50 students/year to Oxbridge is impressive but in year groups of >2000 students, not as great as it sounds.

D (KES, Peter Symonds and Oxford)

So I'm confused when you look at the top prep schools Pilgrims doesn't feature there ( Winchester ) however having visited both the college and Pilgrims I would say there are similarities. It's a small school and we have a place for year 6, is it academically as good as Dragon and Horris hill?? I found Dragon bit too big although it has so many activities and very busy school it's not for us. Any thoughts ??