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Peter Parker <parkerp@pcug.org.au> wrote:

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>But if you wanted to test Vanstone's assertions about private and state 
>schools, you would look at the proportion of students from each of the 
>colleges who gain university entry, and not actual raw numbers.  Of 
>course this would mean the use of percentages, and as we've noted before, 
>the CT is not good at this. 

Or repeat the research done in WA, which shows that private schools
get a higher proportion of their students into unis.

However, with their higher than state school failure rates in first
year, by the beginning of second year, their students don't do any
better than the mob from the state system.




Shane
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