The British Medical Association strongly advises pupils who want to be doctors that they need clinical work experience to even be considered for a medical degree. But now thousands of children, including those on bursaries – around a third of the estimated 650,000 private-school pupils in the UK – are struggling to find work experience at key hospitals.
And why? One reason. Ideology.
One would-be medical student from Emanuel School in south London was told by King's College Hospital Trust – their local NHS trust – that pupils from private schools were not admitted on to their courses, even if they lived in the area.And the MoS has learned of another, on a 100 per cent bursary, who 'applied to every hospital trust and GP practice within an hour of her home' including Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Northampton General Hospital and Milton Keynes University Hospital but 'received either rejections or no responses from almost all' because of the school she attends.
Labour'a war on private schools has been enthusiastically taken up by all the big NHS trusts, so they are ensuring where you went to school is the determinining factor in whether they take you on, all while they plaster their hospitals with 'anti-racism' propaganda.
Last night, Gordon West, head of careers at prestigious independent school Stowe, said: 'This young woman is not from a wealthy background at all; she's from one of the highest priority groups there are. 'Policies like King's College don't account for stories like hers. By excluding private-school kids, they also shut out students on 100 per cent bursaries, many of whom come from families with very limited means.' He added that it was a common story for sixth formers desperate for medical experience to be turned away.
Well, it's not like we need home-grown medical personnel, is it? Not when we can import them from the Third World?
Sources at NHS England said it was for individual trusts to allocate work experience placements.
Labour is a cancer in this country. And it's fully metastasised.
Time after time, my job-hunting offspring have run up against this kind of thing: BBC internship? Don’t bother applying if you aren’t from a ethinc minority/deprived background - BBC job? “We give priority to candidates who have previous experience through our internships”.
ReplyDeleteIt’s the same story with our local authority and others as well as numerous public sector areas, including the recently announced Civil Service internships; see the words ‘we aim to create a diverse workforce’ or ‘we actively encourage applications from minority candidates’ and you can be fairly sure that, thanks to third-party recruiters working to preset specifications, a middle-class white male is unlikely to get as far as the interview stage.
It was only a matter of time before the same weapon was employed to discriminate against pupils from independent schools. In a climate where, emboldened by Labour’s attacks, theatres openly charge higher prices to independent schools (the RSC currently charges £10 per pupil for state school groups and £16.50 each for independent school pupils), it is likely that we will see far more of this discrimination in future.
The most frustrating thing is that, because your CV is with you for life and I fully expect ideology-driven recruiters to be petty enough to abuse the information, older job hunters are likely to find themselves penalised for a decision made by their parents many decades ago.
Welcome to Labour’s ‘kinder, fairer society’!
And it’d be no different if another party was in power!
Delete"Labour is a cancer in this country."
ReplyDeleteHas it ever been anything else? Right from its inception it was destroying our competiveness and allowing other nations to overtake us economically. The NHS was Labour's crowning glory supposedly. I can remember waiting lists being a hot topic back in the early nineteen eighties, it probably goes further back than that. Now I think that people are just resigned to the service being a bit rubbish and only realise that there is a problem when they get taken ill while travelling abroad.
Stonyground.
There’s no escaping it by voting, either.
DeleteLabour is the most misnamed and useless version of the Uniparty ever thrust upon us. Perhaps it's time they were renamed - I suggest The Not For You Party. What a bunch of self-serving, moronic, incompetent, destructive morons!
ReplyDeleteSpot on! And the rest are as bad!
DeleteThe whole diversity thing as kicked off by McKinsey was about diversity of thought (avoiding corporate group think). That does require brown people or those who like to eat genitals the same variety as their own.
ReplyDeleteThere’s no diversity of thought in most organisations, not anymore.
DeleteDamn it, should be "does NOT require brown people..."
ReplyDeleteI knew what you meant ☺️
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