The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
'alternative achievements' in education: There have been many descriptions of how the diversification of its institutions of higher learning enables the American educational system to 'cool out' those who, failing to meet the standards of 'real schooling', are quietly directed towards 'dumping grounds' which the institution and its agents are able to present as leading to 'alternative achievements'. In the same way, the French university is tending more and more to use the implicit, interlocking hierarchies which underpin the whole educational system to secure the 'progressive withdrawal' of the students it relegates into those channels for 'rejects'.