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Spare a thought for Britain’s new persecuted minority: the privately educated

They’re losing their grip on Oxbridge, and Labour threatens to strip elite schools of their charitable status. It just won’t do, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Friday briefing: Has a ‘woke aristocracy’ really taken control of British society?

In today’s newsletter: Interrogating academic Matthew Goodwin’s description of a new left-wing elite

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Ilse Ryder obituary

Other lives: Refugee from Czechoslovakia who became a maths teacher after settling in the UK

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'I felt like an imposter for getting into University of Cambridge with a scholarship'

University can be a challenge for many but Meiyang Jiang's acceptance to study law at Cambridge was met by a huge wave of imposter syndrome that still haunts her now

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University Challenge was biased towards Oxbridge when I worked on it, and it still is. But there’s a fix

A third of the teams competing come from just two universities. How can that not be elitist, asks freelance writer Lillian Crawford

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Fingers on buzzers… are Oxford and Cambridge students really the best?

Letters: Jennifer Highwood and Prof David Thomas weigh in after Frank Coffield’s complaint that University Challenge favours Oxbridge entrants

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Your starter for 10: is University Challenge biased towards Oxbridge?

Letters: Frank Coffield argues that the BBC quiz show is rigged in favour of the two top universities. Plus letters from Joshua Loo and Elizabeth Swinbank

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UCL professor claims BBC ‘hiding’ Oxbridge bias on University Challenge

Professor Frank Coffield is calling for each university to be limited to one entry each

Evening Standard

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’

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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?

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Oxbridge deserts

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Liverpool Echo

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

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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

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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

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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

Daily Mirror

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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‘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

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