It's not all about Hollywood stars paying bribes to get their children into college. In Australia, children of advantage also get a headstart, writes JennaPrice
to a cheating scheme that included bribing test administrators and college coaches on behalf of these families.When I read this story I wondered what the equivalent was in Australia – or if there was an equivalent. There is.
Duggan has real concerns that some universities avoid the ATAR and increasingly admit students through other means, including local students as full-fee paying – which means they can avoid some of the more onerous – or perhaps transparent – admission requirements, such as the ATAR. Full-fee places have grown exponentially in medical schools and the Australian government is considering whether it's possible to implement controls on full-fee medical enrolments.
: “State school graduates do better at university than private school graduates with the same end-of-school tertiary entrance score.”Together, this grooming of students and paying full fees really advantages the already advantaged. They play on the fact that one group of students has better access to information regarding university pathways than the other group.
And the disadvantage gets replicated from generation to generation. Claire Brown, national director of AVID at Victoria University and a researcher in higher education, believes we are kidding ourselves if we don’t recognise the advantages that children of wealth get, above and beyond the actual wealth.
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