从伊顿到牛津款项铺就的升学路英语美文

　　Eton Master Attacks "Buying" into Oxbridge

　　在英国，为了让孩子此后更轻易地升入名牌大学，很多家长都不惜付出高额膏火让孩子就读名牌私立黉舍。但这类用款项铺就升学路的体例一定就能够完成家长的名牌大学梦，由于大学在招生时能够或许会对私立黉舍的先生提出更高的请求。

　　All universities should require significantly higher grades from applicants from leading independent schools because of the quality of education they receive, a senior teacher at Eton said yesterday.

　　据英国《逐日电讯报》3月25日报道，日前，英国闻名私立中学伊顿公学的高档教员戴维·汤恩义提出，一切大学在招生时，都应当对毕业于名牌私立黉舍的先生的分数请求更高，由于他们接管了更高品质的讲授。

　　在伊顿执教37年的化学教员汤恩义表现，若是怙恃破费大批款项让孩子进入私立黉舍念书，是为了他们往后升入名牌大学而不是为了开辟他们的才能和潜质的话，很能够或许就会得失相当。他说：“有人以为，要想进入牛津、剑桥如许的名校，先生毕业的中学仿佛比他们本身的'气力更主要。我想这类概念是完整毛病的。从伊顿毕业的先生应当以更高的分数进入大学，由于在他们在伊顿遭到了其余先生不的高品质教导。社会公道性请求高档院校在招收先生时必须斟酌先生所毕业的黉舍背景。”

　　现年58岁的汤恩义认可，他的倡议必定会引发很多家长的不满。但引发私立黉舍先生家长不满的还远不止汤恩义的倡议。克日，英国当局扩展了高档院校对公立黉舍毕业生的招生比例。这一决议使得浩繁私立黉舍都在担忧他们的先生是不是还能够或许大批的升入名牌大学。

　　英国许所大学表现，国度高档教导基金委员会已向他们下达了招收更多公立黉舍毕业生的教唆。本月，伦敦经济学院也表现，他们已将40个招生名额特地用于招收公立黉舍的先生。同时，英国高档院校退学办事中间(一个特地受理英国大学请求的机构，每一个先生都必须颠末该机构来请求大学)也变动了大学请求书的情势，新请求书增添了请求者填写毕业黉舍和社会背景的请求。

　　为此，汤恩义表现，高档院校留出特地名额招收公立黉舍的先生是不公允的，先生进入大学的唯一前提应当是他们的潜质，而不是毕业黉舍背景及其它。报道说，伊顿公学客岁对该校11岁的退学请求者停止了心思学测验，而这些测验题凡是都是针对大学三年级的先生设立的。伊顿公学表现，心思测试题能够充实看出先生的综合才能和先天。

　　All universities should require significantly higher grades from applicants from leading independent schools because of the quality of education they receive, a senior teacher at Eton said yesterday.

　　It would be unjust if parents were buying entry to elite universities for their children rather than the opportunity for their children to reach their academic potential, he said.

　　"I would feel it totally wrong if an independent school were getting a higher proportion of pupils into Oxford and Cambridge than their real ability merits," said David Townend.

　　Mr Townend, 58, an assistant master, admitted that his remarks would be unpopular with some parents. They would also be controversial at a time when the heads of independent schools feared that their students could miss out as universities strive to meet the Government"s targets for increasing the number of state school entrants.

　　But Mr Townend, who has taught chemistry at the Berkshire school for 37 years, said social justice demanded that universities follow Bristol"s example of taking school background into account when sending out their offers of places.

　　He proposed a motion which was overwhelmingly passed by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers at its annual conference in Torquay committing it to campaign for entry to higher education to be on potential alone. The union voted to encourage universities to make allowance in the selection procedures for a variety of educational provision experienced by individual candidates at school or college.

　　"It must be right that pupils from Eton should be required to achieve significantly higher grades than someone who has not had the benefits we at Eton can provide," Mr Townend said.

　　Universities have been given "benchmark" targets by the Higher Education Funding Council for increasing the proportion of state educated pupils they admit.

　　The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is also changing the application form to include questions indicating a candidate"s school and social background.

　　This month the London School of Economics admitted that it sets aside 40 places which are available only to applicants from low-achieving state schools.

　　Mr Townend told the conference of teachers from state and independent schools that he would not want to see universities set quotas for state school pupils, which would be unfair.

　　However, research had shown that teachers in the independent sector tended to overestimate the grades their pupils would achieve at the end of their courses while those in the state sector underestimated them.

　　It would be much fairer for pupils to apply to university only after they had received their results, argued Mr Townend, who said that he believed passionately in social justice.

　　"I emphatically state that entry to university should be on potential alone.

　　"Oxbridge asks for three As and many good universities from the Russell group ask for 3 Bs from Eton.

　　"I see no reason why they should not offer much lower grades from schools without such good results."

　　Last year Eton introduced psychometric tests designed by Durham University for all applicants at the age of 11 and they had been used to measure the potential of junior scholars.

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