“The new ‘meritocracy,’” says Granato, “means we have replaced direct familial bloodline as an entry point to elite status with meritocratic achievement, albeit which, with a lifetime of ...

This is a deeply meritocratic approach. Last year, in our first contest, we had participation from students at over 140 schools as well as many noncampus candidates, many of whom Bridgewater had ...

The political philosopher John Rawls pointed out that a meritocratic society isn’t necessarily fairer than an aristocratic one. After all, the qualities that meritocracy rewards – exceptional ...

While no society could function without a class of people responsible for managing economic, cultural, and educational institutions, today’s meritocratic elite have served to legitimize a world ...

A former Prime Minister has branded her own university's plans to substitute traditional exams for 'inclusive assessments' as 'anti-meritocratic nonsense'. Liz Truss made the comments as Russell ...

Labour also has a peculiar relationship with the book for which Young perhaps looms largest: his 1958 satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy. The Labour party has a partly meritocratic impulse, leavened ...