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BBC accused of ‘hiding’ Oxbridge bias on University Challenge in deepening elitism row

Corporation rejects freedom of information request from campaigner who claims show is ‘rigged’

The Guardian - UK

BBC defends University Challenge after accusations of Oxbridge bias

THE BBC has defended its University Challenge quiz show after being accused of having a “grotesque” Oxbridge bias by a professor.

The National (Scotland)

BBC rejects charge of elitist Oxbridge bias in University Challenge

Corporation denies breach of impartiality rules by ‘rigging’ show in favour of Oxford and Cambridge

The Guardian - UK

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OPINION - Interest rate rises are a blunt tool – but we haven’t thought of anything better

I would ban all open letters. Don’t write one and never put your name to someone else’s. Open letters are petitions that went to Oxbridge and goad you into asking which college they attended. But there is one example I hold in particularly low regard: the exchange of letters between…

Evening Standard

‘The best people for the job in tech today tend to be diverse’

Bobby Idogho is building the company he wants to see

Evening Standard

How to dislodge the posh clique that rules Britain

Letters: Simon Bull asks for discrimination against the state-educated to be outlawed, and other readers write on Oxbridge and Eton domination

The Guardian - UK

England’s old boys’ club has evolved into ‘the network’, made up of high rollers and City slickers

Powerbrokering has shifted from landed gentry to financiers and businessmen, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK

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Is Sunak’s cabinet representative of the nation it governs?

New PM said he would ‘unite our country’ but do his ministerial appointments reflect population?

The Guardian - UK

The Mancunian Way: Oxbridge deserts

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Manchester Evening News

The Blue Coat is Liverpool's best state funded school for pupils getting into Oxbridge

Nine of the school's 2020/21 graduates were accepted by Oxford or Cambridge in the most recent year for which figures were released

Liverpool Echo

The incredible 16-year-old carer who has straights As and dreams of going to Oxbridge

She aced her exams and hopes to go to Oxbridge

Wales Online

Forget Oxbridge: St Andrews knocks top universities off perch

Latest Guardian University Guide shows leading trio are in league of their own for undergraduate courses

The Guardian - UK

Earlier Oxbridge applications create new obstacle for poorer students, say experts

Bringing forward date for candidates to apply for courses and sit tests could disadvantage state school pupils

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss policies - new Prime Minister's full pledge card and how it hits you

Liz Truss now has to live up to her pledges - from the copper-bottomed to the vague. So here's a print-out-and-keep guide for you to make sure the new Prime Minister doesn't forget about them

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The Guardian - UK

‘Campaigning to keep the lights on’: the desperate plight of England’s schools and universities

Despite their costs going ‘through the roof’, education leaders fear they will be a low priority for the next occupant of No 10

The Independent UK

GCSE results: Fifteen famous people who prove you don’t need good grades to be successful

Sir Richard Branson, Drew Barrymore, Carey Mulligan, Steven Spielberg and Cameron Diaz among the celebrities who went on to triumph after exam disappointment

The Independent UK

A-level results: Fifteen famous people who prove you don’t need good grades to be successful

Sir Richard Branson, Drew Barrymore, Carey Mulligan, Steven Spielberg and Cameron Diaz among the celebrities who went on to triumph after exam disappointment

The Independent UK

Brighton College student turns down Cambridge University to study at Yale

Shaun Pexton has turned down the prestigious Cambridge University, opting instead to continue his education in the United States.

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The Independent UK

15 famous people who prove you don't need good grades to be successful

When you're in the middle of exams, it can feel like they're taking over your whole life.

The Independent UK

‘No room for complacency in upping representation of black students at Oxbridge’

Black Year 12 pupils have been disproportionately affected by the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the Target Oxbridge programme said.

The Guardian - UK

Truss and Sunak’ ideas on education are ‘sugar-rush’ policymaking, says expert

Tory leadership candidates want to bring back grammar schools among other campaign promises but critics are wary

Daily Mirror

What would life under Prime Minister Liz Truss look like? From tax cuts to grammar schools

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has emerged as the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race as she dukes it out with Rishi Sunak to succeed Boris Johnson. Here we look at what a Truss premiership could mean

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s Oxbridge proposal is the latest vacuous idea from a slapstick Tory race

The ill-thought-out ideas issuing from Britain’s prime ministerial candidates are a cause for alarm, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss slammed as critics warns school policies 'ignore needs of disadvantaged kids'

The Foreign Secretary did not explain how her plan to offer Oxbridge interviews to all top students would work in practice

Daily Mirror

Flagging Rishi Sunak insists there's 'all to play for' as leadership vote starts tomorrow

Tory leadership election ballots arrive from Monday - and Rishi Sunak has been battling to make up ground after Liz Truss pulled ahead in the race to be next Prime Minister

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