Re: Immigrant Dependency

Hi

Just to add, I am a scientist from a very poor background.

I was the eldest, so no Uni, I had to get a job and go to Polytechnic.

Block release, no holidays.

I was paid during my studying, had to work for them for 3 years after.

I was lucky, I wish we gave others the same chance now.

Re: Immigrant Dependency

The requirements for Medical schools in the UK are extremely exacting .
Most require three As at A level and these must include Chemistry and two other academic subjects .
Would be applicants also have to pass a series of tests set by the individual colleges .
Make personal statements as to why they want to be a doctor and be of good character .
The reason that most come from middle class families is that the families themselves were probably studious and clever and that’s how they obtained their middle class status .

People tend to marry people of similar backgrounds .
So two intelligent people will ( on paper ) produce intelligent children .
Who go on to become professional themselves.

I know of two working class medics.

One came from a disadvantaged family he had been adopted .
However he later found his biological father who was in fact a doctor .
This gave him the idea to apply to medical school and he was accepted and himself became a doctor .

The second came from a very poor family indeed .
He won a scholarship to medical college ( this was not in the Uk ) he was exceptionally clever And became a veterinary surgeon .
None of his siblings did anything academic .