ERIC Number: EJ1277586
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
Pages: 5
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Private Schools and Queue-Jumping: A Reply to White
Kidd, Ian James; Jago, Mark
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v54 n5 p1201-1205 Oct 2020
John White defends the UK private school system from the accusation that it allows an unfair form of 'queue jumping' in university admissions. He offers two responses to this accusation, one based on considerations of harm, and one based on meritocratic distribution of university places. We will argue that neither response succeeds: the queue-jumping argument remains a powerful case against the private school system in the UK. We begin by briefly outlining the queue-jumping argument, before evaluating White's no-harm and meritocracy arguments. [For John White's "Justifying Private Schools," see EJ1120435.]
Descriptors: Private Schools, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Equal Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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