Catholic education and theology college?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris#Origins
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford#Founding
Bindoon: * https://kelsolawyers.com/au/paedophile_offenders/brother-kea...
Castledare: * https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39131761
Clontarf: * https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/clontarf/
St Augustine’s / Marcellin College : * https://kelsolawyers.com/au/paedophile_offenders/father-terr...
Not just Catholic schools, of course - but they certainly swept the boards and came first by a good margin: https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-studies
They were very good at keeping it under wraps for decades though.
No, they really weren't. These were state school's in 1970's eastern Europe. No tuition, and neither parent was from a privileged background.
That didn't universally equate to privilege in a class or wealth sense for a number of countries.
eg: https://www.whitlam.org/whitlam-legacy-education
was the system I was educated under, when I took orals it was a result of being a scruffy kid that wore no shoes but passed general high school and math talent exams better than all but three others my age in the state.
( For interest, the three that ramked higher than myself that year in Tertiary admissions exams were all educated in expensive private schools in the capital city- I got by on School of the Air, a bunch of books and a few years at a smallish remote high school in far north W.Australia
* https://www.aades.edu.au/members/wa
1970's ham radio running off truck batteries - pre internet for that area, although we did experiment with text over phone line and packet radio.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel
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In an effort to standardize European systems many courses are trying to get rid of them because foreign students are particularly weak in an oral defense.
Turns out we were right for once :D
Pen-and-paper exams only. No take-home essays or assignments. Assessments done in person under supervision. No devices in class. Heavily reduced remote learning or online coursework. Coursework redesigned so that any out-of-class work is explicitly AI-collaborative. Frequent low-stakes in-class writing to verify student voice and baseline ability. And when resources permit have oral exams and presentations as a means of assessment.
We did this for decades when tuition was a fraction of today's cost. Any argument that we can't return to basics is bollocks.
If you're trying to hawk education for $$$$$$, probably need to offer some actual human instruction, not Zoom and Discord sessions that anyone could run from their bedroom.
If they can't, then the rot and capture really is as bad as this makes out, and to update Will Hunting: the kids might as well save $150k and get their learning for $20/month on ChatGPT.