Dilbert_X wrote:

No-one should ever trust politicians, or underestimate the importance of a free press in keeping them honest.

Elite institutions do tend to breed elitism, and nepotism, applies to many organisations besides Universities.
Really its surprising the college old boy network hasn't been stamped on in the same way as racism, since it is a form of discrimination.
Strangely most of the people I've dealt with from Cambridge have been AOK, those from Oxford total arses.

Thats one thing I like about Australia, no-one cares where you went to University or who your Daddy plays golf with.
as long as that university doesn't have the words "western sydney" in it, you mean. then it's not so much of a case of elisitm as they won't take you seriously

i kid, ofc. i'm sure uws is great...
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman