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• It will also be a genuinely meritocratic reform; no longer will it just be pupils from independent schools who have access to things like the IB, the Pre-U and IGCSES. In other news...
• While conceding the need for security and achievement, Lears bristles at ‘the arrogance of the meritocratic myth’ that justifies inequality, panders to dreams of human omnipotence, and lames any will to generosity.
• Thus, the highest positions of prestige and authority would be assumed by a meritocratic elite of intelligence and creativity: the technocracy.
• In terms of their social and educational origins these producers' backgrounds are broadly middle-class and meritocratic.
• They will be underpinned by Permanent Secretaries and a professional, meritocratic and politically neutral civil service.
• Its aristocratic tendencies sit badly with the meritocratic facts of Scottish life.
• Although Rodger is discerning in his assessment of every social level of the wooden world, he's especially perceptive in analyzing the recruitment, training, and culture of the officer corps; the navy, which required that its officers begin their careers by carrying out the duties of common seamen and mastering the skills of those they would command, "identified and promoted good men very fast," making it undoubtedly the most meritocratic institution in a society defined by archaic privilege. Eminent Domains
• They were coeducational and meritocratic, offering scholarships to those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
• Taken as a whole, Marshall's meritocratic egalitarianism was strongly critical both of the distribution of social benefits and harms in the United States, which did not conform to meritocratic principles, and of the widespread ideas about meritocracy, which placed too much weight on differences that a real meritocrat would regard as minor. Tushnet on The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall
• They will be underpinned by Permanent Secretaries and a professional, meritocratic and politically neutral civil service.