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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    That sounds exactly like the problem my high school had. Enough bogan losers that the place developed a 'lowest common denominator' culture.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    I am not suggesting it does. I am suggesting that the companies I've worked with (and there have been several, including multinationals) did not pay differently based on gender. I am visibility of all staff salaries in my current role, and there is no differentiation based on gender.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    It's not a sample size of 1, it's a sample size of all grads from that intake year (yes, we knew each others' salary). And I don't work with numbers. I'm not an accountant. In my job I have to actually understand the problem... Are you disagreeing with my assertion that men and women...
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    I don't think so. My first job was with a 'big 4' accounting firm and all grads started on the same.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    I think it's important to consider why statistics show this. Based on my experience, it is not because women receive lower salary for doing an identical job, but rather because many women take time off to have a family and the men move forward during this time.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    Fair point mate, I appreciate your viewpoint. I also accept that there are many ways to get from point A to point B. The trick is to work out which one works for you, then go hammer and tong to get there.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    If you do education because you're 'supposed to', then maybe. But used as a means to an end, part of a larger plan, it won't. I have 2 technical degrees (Bachelor and Masters) that I have leveraged to get to where I am career-wise, which now pays for my lifestyle, investing and more.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    It's a good discussion to have. It's definitely something I have thought about over the years,.
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    I'm in the IT business, and we do a lot of business development and staff recruitment through networks of people we have worked with. But I have never even heard of us recruiting or doing BD through old school networks (and I am a director in our company).
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    Agree with all this. A member of my wife's family tried to tell me that we should always get into the most expensive school we could for the networking our children would do. It might have worked a couple of generations ago but in b usiness it doesn't now. If anything, having everything lined...
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    My son goes to the local public primary, which did very well in the recent NAPLAN testing, and my son is well above average by school standards. That said, we live in a wealthy area with lots of professional parents, many of whom push education as being important. We don't have a local high...
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