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People from wealthy and influential families are more likely to gain good results at school and go on to higher education, a new report reveals. In what is perhaps a more surprising revelation, given the Government's commitment to choice for all, the report also shows that virtually all the best paid professions are occupied by people with wealthy and influential forbears.
The study, commissioned by two Government think-tanks, the Department of University Learning Liberalisation (DULL) and the Department for the Incentivisation and Maximisation of Mentation (DIMM), notes that "a very large percentage of Britain's educated people come from families which could afford to give them an education," and notes the seeming lack of motivation among those on low incomes to save the necessary fees for their children's further and higher education.
As with private health insurance, the reluctance of people on low incomes to pay the necessary premiums has resulted in considerable hardship, about which the Government is "very sad indeed", a spokesman said. "It is regrettably possible that the concept of 'deserving poor' may have been rather too broadly and naïvely applied with regard to education," claims the report.
Abolition of corporal punishment has had relatively little effect on trends in educational results over the past two decades, the study finds. A number of Tory MPs claim that the phasing out of corporal punishment has produced a decline in standards, but the report points out that the reintroduction of child labour and the threat of being sent down the mines in the event of failure in the seven-plus exams is a compensating influence.
A parents' pressure group is threatening to sue the broadcast networks for transmitting unpleasant or tedious news at unsuitable hours. "It costs us money when our children are bored or disturbed," one mother claimed. "My five-year-old got bored watching the latest about the war in Africa and I had to buy him a new computer game to keep him quiet. Operation Friendly Fist at £59.95 this time, all for a bit of peace while those Africans just laze around besieging each other."
We regret that we cannot be held responsible if the future turns out differently due to inaccuracies in the present
People from wealthy and influential families are more likely to gain good results at school and go on to higher education, a new report reveals. In what is perhaps a more surprising revelation, given the Government's commitment to choice for all, the report also shows that virtually all the best paid professions are occupied by people with wealthy and influential forbears.
The study, commissioned by two Government think-tanks, the Department of University Learning Liberalisation (DULL) and the Department for the Incentivisation and Maximisation of Mentation (DIMM), notes that "a very large percentage of Britain's educated people come from families which could afford to give them an education," and notes the seeming lack of motivation among those on low incomes to save the necessary fees for their children's further and higher education.
As with private health insurance, the reluctance of people on low incomes to pay the necessary premiums has resulted in considerable hardship, about which the Government is "very sad indeed", a spokesman said. "It is regrettably possible that the concept of 'deserving poor' may have been rather too broadly and naïvely applied with regard to education," claims the report.
Abolition of corporal punishment has had relatively little effect on trends in educational results over the past two decades, the study finds. A number of Tory MPs claim that the phasing out of corporal punishment has produced a decline in standards, but the report points out that the reintroduction of child labour and the threat of being sent down the mines in the event of failure in the seven-plus exams is a compensating influence.
A parents' pressure group is threatening to sue the broadcast networks for transmitting unpleasant or tedious news at unsuitable hours. "It costs us money when our children are bored or disturbed," one mother claimed. "My five-year-old got bored watching the latest about the war in Africa and I had to buy him a new computer game to keep him quiet. Operation Friendly Fist at £59.95 this time, all for a bit of peace while those Africans just laze around besieging each other."
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