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David Wilson (68)
If he was on a scholarship, wouldn't he most likely stay at Newington as a boarder?I don't follow your logic
If he was on a scholarship, wouldn't he most likely stay at Newington as a boarder?I don't follow your logic
Certainly they might, it was a question, not a statement on my part. It's been asserted that there a boys from Tonga on scholarships reside in the boarding house at Newington, I was just querying as whether his departure might signal that he wasn't on a scholarship. Of course, I don't know either way.Perhaps they value keeping the family together.
Its all part of an all rounded education at Scots ....... if you want just academics send your son to Grammar the results of that are plain to see for all........ total juxtaposition to Scots........Another thing to bring to the table is the amount of money spent on sporting facilities.
Here is something from the Scots website:
"The Scots High Performance Centre uses the following technologies to enhance our sporting and academic programs:
a) I question how this would improve the academic program
- GPS Tracking devices
- Gold Standard anthropometry (BOD POD)
- Stationary full spirometry and VO2 testing (COSMED)
- Mobile VO2 and resting metabolic rate testing (COSMED)
- Speed Gates
- Altitude training chamber"
b) The amount of money spent on this would have been extremely over the top
In addition, Riverview have a hyperbaric chamber which cost up to $5.2 million
Surely this would be money better spent on education
Its all part of an all rounded education at Scots ... if you want just academics send your son to Grammar the results of that are plain to see for all.... total juxtaposition to Scots....
Grammar's decline in some sports (remember, GPS sports are not all about rugby, despite what some seem to think) reflect a generation and a half of a strongly academic selective process.
Total?Its all part of an all rounded education at Scots ... if you want just academics send your son to Grammar the results of that are plain to see for all.... total juxtaposition to Scots....
OK - its only early, but I am starting to see a pattern - absolute bedlam and confusion - the current scholarship practices are " all over the shop like a mad woman's breakfast ". On one side of the discussion, we have -
Conversely, we have -
- a few people not really sure why the schools do it
- disgruntled parents and disenfranchised students
- a pattern of receding academic outcomes
- a suggestion for boys at the school on scholarships not to sit the mainstream exams, and
- a proposal that " skoolin' aint necessarily about skoolin' "
Lets keep this going - I would like to hear more opinions, because I still have no idea - what's in it for the schools??
- a pay-back for some deep-rooted Catholics vs the world anxiety , which probably stems back to the Angles, Saxons and Jutes ( yes IS and BW - world domination can be very time-consuming !)
- it's purely ego, and the schools do it because it's just nice to stroke the ego a little regardless of how it looks to others ( shit that ego must get bruised when the punt doesnt pay off and the best schoolboy team that money can buy doesnt win the flag !! )
All of you posters who have fervently defended your own schools - that is great, it is what makes schoolboy rugby such a great institution, and what makes this discussion so passionate - take a step back, and in that passion for your school, ask the question why does my school do this - what is in it for the school ??
Where's Grammar?What is in it for the schools?
Put simply, $.
Private schools are business. It is a very tough and congested market. Market behaviour is also emotive and influenced by perceptions rather than pure rationality. Arguably the Schools are not there to make a large profit, but if they do not at least break even, then they close.
Parents make decisions on where to send their boys, and pay very large sums of money for the privalege, based on a whole heap of factors with reputation being a key factor.
Someone more skilled in advertising will know the exact words to use, but the awareness of the Brand of the school is influenced by success in the schools academic, musical, sporting and co-corricular programmes.
Perceived success in these endeavours will positively influence a persons view of the "reputation" of the school.
Either develop the success organically, or buy some in. The latter can prove to be rather cost effective.
http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/private-school-fees-boom-20130125-2dc27.html
Using either school web sites or the SMH figures for year 12 for 2013, the Sydney AAGPS schools are competing for $240m of annual revenue.
These figures assume that all students are paying Yr 12 figures. This is clearly not the case, but near enough is close enough to illustrate the rough magnitude of the the AAGPS revenue.
Newington, 1600 students @ $27,369 = $43.7m
Joeys, 900 students @ $25,434 = $22.8m
Riverview, 1569 students @ $22,095 = 34.6m
Scots, 1800 students @ $30,900 = $55.6m
Kings, 1500 students @ $28,905 = $43.3m
Shore, 1600 students @ $25,200 = $40.3m
8969 student places, raising $240.6m @ an average of $26,830 per student.
The marginal cost of a boy on reduced funding to the school is nowhere near the cost of the revenue lost by that boy occupying a slot that full fee paying boy would notionally contribute.
Many boys on "scholarships" are on reduced funding with the parents/benefactors paying anywhere between 0% and 75% of the fees paid by the others.
If School X decides to "lose" the opportunity to raise revenue from 10 students ($26830) by waiving fees to 10 students that will somehow enhance the reputation of School X in the eyes of 100 prospective parents for a Year 7 intake to an extent that 50 enroll, then that is a rather rational economic decision.
Similar argument would apply for the Briabane GPS schools.
Economic rationalists would be proud of what they have achieved.
Scots have been improving very much in the rowing......... i would be surprised if Grammar had outdone us...... apart from the one off first 8 win a few years ago........ happy to be corrected by facts............Total?
TSC don't seem to have outdone Grammar on the river: the sport you can't recruit for.
I agree broadly with your comments but I make the following points, the First 15 at Scots is organic any suggestion that they are not is a blight on a champion team, Newington is the team that deserves the scrutiny...... my point with Grammar is just simply that in the 60' and 70's (and for a long time before this) they were a very strong sporting school and still had the academic strength they have always had ............ i wonder where it all changed........It's about balance. Grammar is no more "just academic" than Scots is "just Rugby". The question is about a school spending big on sport training facilities while their academic results have markedly declined in just a few years, and whether that is wise. Grammar's decline in some sports (remember, GPS sports are not all about rugby, despite what some seem to think) reflect a generation and a half of a strongly academic selective process, rather than overspending on that area, or underspending on sporting facilities. It can be argued that the balance is a bit wrong there, too.
Of course, parents wanting a mainly academic approach can chase a selective high school, or selective private school. I suspect most parents sending kids to Scots want a real balance, not a bought rugby premiership, and would have some concern at academic results falling.
I agree broadly with your comments but I make the following points, the First 15 at Scots is organic any suggestion that they are not is a blight on a champion team, Newington is the team that deserves the scrutiny.. my point with Grammar is just simply that in the 60' and 70's (and for a long time before this) they were a very strong sporting school and still had the academic strength they have always had .... i wonder where it all changed....
What is in it for the schools?
Put simply, $.
Private schools are business. It is a very tough and congested market. Market behaviour is also emotive and influenced by perceptions rather than pure rationality. Arguably the Schools are not there to make a large profit, but if they do not at least break even, then they close.
Parents make decisions on where to send their boys, and pay very large sums of money for the privalege, based on a whole heap of factors with reputation being a key factor.
Someone more skilled in advertising will know the exact words to use, but the awareness of the Brand of the school is influenced by success in the schools academic, musical, sporting and co-corricular programmes.
Perceived success in these endeavours will positively influence a persons view of the "reputation" of the school.
Either develop the success organically, or buy some in. The latter can prove to be rather cost effective.
http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/private-school-fees-boom-20130125-2dc27.html
Using either school web sites or the SMH figures for year 12 for 2013, the Sydney AAGPS schools are competing for $240m of annual revenue.
These figures assume that all students are paying Yr 12 figures. This is clearly not the case, but near enough is close enough to illustrate the rough magnitude of the the AAGPS revenue.
Newington, 1600 students @ $27,369 = $43.7m
Joeys, 900 students @ $25,434 = $22.8m
Riverview, 1569 students @ $22,095 = 34.6m
Scots, 1800 students @ $30,900 = $55.6m
Kings, 1500 students @ $28,905 = $43.3m
Shore, 1600 students @ $25,200 = $40.3m
8969 student places, raising $240.6m @ an average of $26,830 per student.
The marginal cost of a boy on reduced funding to the school is nowhere near the cost of the revenue lost by that boy occupying a slot that full fee paying boy would notionally contribute.
Many boys on "scholarships" are on reduced funding with the parents/benefactors paying anywhere between 0% and 75% of the fees paid by the others.
If School X decides to "lose" the opportunity to raise revenue from 10 students ($26830) by waiving fees to 10 students that will somehow enhance the reputation of School X in the eyes of 100 prospective parents for a Year 7 intake to an extent that 50 enroll, then that is a rather rational economic decision.
Similar argument would apply for the Briabane GPS schools.
Economic rationalists would be proud of what they have achieved.
you are going to have to define "organic". You have failed to answer my previous post on how their no. 10 has turned up organically and conveniently just before the season started. As stated before he received a phone call the day before Easter,and started the day after Easter.I agree broadly with your comments but I make the following points, the First 15 at Scots is organic any suggestion that they are not is a blight on a champion team, Newington is the team that deserves the scrutiny.. my point with Grammar is just simply that in the 60' and 70's (and for a long time before this) they were a very strong sporting school and still had the academic strength they have always had .... i wonder where it all changed....
I left Grammar out of my OP on costs because they are not currently "playing with the big boys" in the hunt for the AAGPS rugby title. Secondly the school in recent times has demonstrated that it is happy to rely on reputation and prowess in areas outside of Rugby to recruit their students.
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you are going to have to define "organic". You have failed to answer my previous post on how their no. 10 has turned up organically and conveniently just before the season started. As stated before he received a phone call the day before Easter,and started the day after Easter.
I love this line... "Organic". Is the 1st V "organic"? Was 12/13 1st XI "organic"?I agree broadly with your comments but I make the following points, the First 15 at Scots is organic any suggestion that they are not is a blight on a champion team, Newington is the team that deserves the scrutiny.. my point with Grammar is just simply that in the 60' and 70's (and for a long time before this) they were a very strong sporting school and still had the academic strength they have always had .... i wonder where it all changed....
To skew your figures further you have 360 boarders at kings paying $20k, riverview with 340 paying $16k, scots with 250 paying $22.5k ( taking their fees to over $50k), shore with 200 paying $23k and joeys with 600 paying $11k. Figures thanks to "the land". Scots works out to be the dearest of all the boarding schools published through NSW, Qld and Vic.Wouldn't the same logic apply to Shore? They have a similar approach to Grammar, but just have a stronger rugby demographic which gets them through, to an extent anyway.
Also, of the schools that you quoted, New, Scots, Kings and Shore are K-12, so their aggregate numbers include around 500-600 primary students. Including them skews the figures IMO.