Private school pupils banned from work experience in hospitals

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“Pupils who want to be doctors 'barred' from vital work experience at NHS hospitals - because they go to private school”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15007121/amp/doctors-work-experience-NHS-hospitals-private-school.html

This will be extended to all civil service jobs.
Bridgitte Philipson is a nasty bully. What next, private school pupils to sit on certain sections on buses? I cannot wait until the next general election, this shower need a wipeout.

I don't know, I have four degrees already. Any more would (perhaps) be slightly OTT.

Ohh you must be Very Clever if you have 4 degrees.

But surely esteemed highly intelligent and highly educated teacher helped these super bright kids to navigate? right?

Well there are 2 state schools each with approx 600 kids Vs the single independent school with 400 so statistically it's probably more likely to happen in the state school.

These mythical "networks" may have been true 40+ years ago but society has moved on. You think the kids in the state school politicians use don't have amazing work experience networks? Or kids in state grammar schools?
Networks come from having parents in professional type jobs, irrespective of which school you go to.

And yet you still lack critical thinking skills and are extremely prejudiced. Doesn't say much for your education does it? Strange that someone with 4 degrees feels so threatened by children from independent schools that they have to contruct a whole false narrative to themselves about the types of people those children are.

What were you saying about grammar? 😂

Yeah that’s what a teacher does…..

Do you have any idea which children usually go to independent schools?

Multitasking 😉

And not a teacher, sorry.

Still, how did you help these kids?

Gah this again. Please go back to my previous post. I think you have mixed me up with another poster who said something pretty rude about PS students. I have absolutely nothing against privately educated children/adults and spend 90% of my life working, very happily, amongst them!!

Debatable- consider a family of two parents (earning around £50k each outside London area) have one child who they have put through private education.
This is not a rich family, this is middle class family who is living very comfortable life and are not classed as rich. They have a mortgage and bills to pay like everyone else. They are in their 40s have worked their way up at work.

The above is your typical private school family in the UK. They choose to spend their money this way.

BTW-
A 2025 HSBC survey found that the UK public generally considers an annual income of £213,000 sufficient to be seen as wealthy—over six times the national average salary.

If you genuinely believe that all privately educated school families earn more than £215k then there’s no point having a debate on this. I have worked in private schools and I can tell you now that the families who go there do not earn anywhere near that amount.

??? By stretching them? Giving them more difficult work? Making them aware of their subject outside the classroom.

You called all private school pupils ‘posh’.

Agree about ‘middle class’. Though 17% kids age 16-18 go to private school.

Oh yeah I stand by that and don't know why people are so upset by that word, it's not an insult to be posh! 😂

They would just fill the vacancies currently being carried

Is that 17% of all 16-18 yo go to private school or 17% of 16-18 yo who are at school are at a private school? I presume it's the latter?

🙄

It’s demonstrates how you generalise. And therefore undermines anything else you say.

... it was a genuine question. 100% of 16-18 year olds aren't at school

You know what is really sad here? It's extremism.

By all means, let's work on outreach programs and partnerships, etc, etc. I know a lot of top tier PS (in London at least, first hand experience) make a lot of efforts to support state schools. But an outright ban for PS kids?

You make quotas for uni admissions for PS students - well, a lot of most the desirable employers now run uni blind assessments for grads. Surprise surprise, it led to a much higher proportion of PS grads getting the jobs. I remember a thread here a couple of years ago when some poster had DS with contextual to Oxbridge and was fuming at uni blind recruitment.

At present Labour are doing all they can to give Reform majority in 2029. It doesn't require two brain cells to see that DEI targets, incl socio-economic background, will be the first ones to go. Remember Trump in Feb? Unfortunately we will be there in four years.

I can see how you got 4 degrees.

How picky.

Perhaps an Acorn definition with various subgroups would have been better? Would that have suited you more? I mean it’s just a chat board.

So over 10 years they saw a real terms reduction of a 1/3 and they shouldn’t do anything about it? I don’t work in medicine but if my colleagues and I were facing a pay cut we’d fight like tooth and nail to stop it.

Where did they end up?

You say it's not the brightest who went to medical school - why so? or hang on, did these super bright kids even want to be become medics?

They went to RG. Or Oxbridge.

No they didn’t particularly want to be medics. But they were brighter than those who did. But it was all in answer to someone saying they only wanted the best to be doctors.

Well sometimes doctors aren’t the best or the brightest.