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This is an interesting little report:
The report, by the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, found that the professions had in general become more socially exclusive.
Bright children from middle income families, not just those from the poorest backgrounds, were missing out on a professional career, it found.
Really?
While just seven per cent of the population attend fee-paying schools, a majority of people working in law, finance and the upper echelons of the media were educated privately, it found.
Three-quarters of judges and 70 per cent of finance directors were independently schooled, as were 45 per cent of senior civil servants and 32 per cent of MPs, the researchers found.
I wonder if there might be a cause for this?
We used to have an education system which took the academically bright, from whatever background, and then gave them the sort of academic education they would need to be able to go on and succeed in those professions.
Now we don’t have such a system. I wonder if that could be the cause?
You know, the abolition of the grammar schools?
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One of the impacts of insisting that the working time directive is imposed upon the UK is going to be about medical training.
Laparoscopic surgery has been shown to reduce recovery time, hospital stays, infection rates and post-operative pain.
But the US study of 4,702 prostate cancer patients showed that it was harder to master than open surgery.
Surgeons had to perform around 750 keyhole operations before they achieved the same low level of disease recurrence as their traditional colleagues achieved after 250 procedures.
If you are, like most trainee surgeons, working a 60-70 hour week then you can get to your 750 operations target, the one where you are actually skilled and fully trained, a lot faster than you can if you´re forced into a chorter working week.
And it applies not just to prostate surgery of course, it applies to all. In the name of Europe we´re all to be operated on by half trained surgeons. Not quite what we want, eh?
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On the real cost of the protectionism of the European Union.
Simply, the millions attempting to come here from Africa are doing so because we don´t allow them to send us their produce instead.