What’s going on? Despite the BBC’s best efforts, there’s no Oxbridge college in next Monday’s final of University Challenge. This year the BBC allowed nine Oxbridge colleges out of a total of 28 (32.1%) to compete, and still they did not win.
What’s happened to effortless superiority? Will the BBC now belatedly accept that academic ability is widely distributed among British students and is not concentrated on Oxbridge?
