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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Zoe Tidman

White private schoolboys ‘are disadvantaged group due to culture war’ Cambridge academic claims

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White boys from top private schools are the “disadvantaged candidates” when applying to Oxbridge as their traits get targeted in culture wars, a Cambridge academic has said.

David Abulafia, a British historian, claimed their characteristics were being used to “justify injustice” as peers from state schools take top university places instead.

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