"Big Five” Failed
Jf PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEATEN : ff WHITEHALL EXAMINATIONS * # LONDON, Jan. 25. Boys of working and middlo class parents, aided by State scholarships, have swept board in the examination for the administrative class in Whitehall. Forty appointments were made on the results. Only one went to a public school boy. The remaining 39 were won by minor, secondary and council school boys.
The successful public schoolboy belongs to Charterhouse. For the first time on record Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Winchester have all failed to win a single place. The day when the “big five” schools were the exclusive nurs-eries-for the big jobs at Whitehall is ended.
Elementary schoolboys first gain scholarships to the secondary schools, and then to the universities. According to the latest records, half of the students at present in Oxford and Cambridge came from council elementary schools.
In the universities the change is even more remarkable. In . one northern university the council schoolboys are 80 per cent of the whole. i.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 45, 24 February 1936, Page 2
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