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  Anyone for stretching?

  Fran Abrams asks, is the new Cambridge Pre-U useful or merely an elitist qualification?

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  Elitism row student gets Cambridge distinction

  Oct 27 2008:

  Eight years after rejection from Oxford, Laura Spence collects medical degree

• Oxbridge interviews: expect the unexpected

  Oct 15 2008:

  Don't be fazed by weird questions - they're there for a reason

• Can money get you into Oxbridge?

  Sep 2 2008:

  Admissions procedures are becoming fairer all the time, but there is room for improvement. By Elfi Pallis

• No easy way to tackle the Oxbridge class divide

  Aug 25 2008:

  Heather McRobie: Interviewing more kids from state schools won't necessarily help them get places at the UK's most prestigious universities

• Oxford targets the poorest postcodes

  Aug 17 2008:

  University accused of social engineering as it targets top-grade teenagers in deprived areas

• Oxford is doing its best to widen participation

  Aug 12 2008:

  The simple fact is that Oxford wants the brightest, most academically committed kids as its undergraduates, says Tom Kemp

• Networked from birth

  May 9 2008:

  Boris Johnson's election as mayor now means that there are two men with remarkably similar histories at the top of the Tory party: both he and leader David Cameron are Old Etonians who went to Oxford and were members of the same notorious drinking club. But the Conservatives are just reflecting modern Britain, says John Harris - a nation that is now less meritocratic than in a generation

• Young, rich and drunk

  May 9 2008:

  The Bullingdon Club draws its all-male members by secret ballot from Oxford University's social elite. Barney Ronay explains the raucous rituals that unite this band of yobbish toffs

• Number of Cambridge state school students falls

  Apr 4 2008:

  Applications from students from state schools this academic year fell by 5%, following a comparable fall last year

• Cambridge gets endowment to attract state school pupils

  Mar 27 2008:

  A £4m gift from an educational philanthropist will boost Cambridge University's efforts to attract more applicants from state schools

• Oxford and Cambridge fail to improve state school intake

  Feb 18 2008:

  Oxford and Cambridge universities are to overhaul their undergraduate recruitment strategies in recognition that they have failed to significantly increase the number of applicants from state schools

• Cambridge fails to lure state pupils

  Feb 17 2008:

  University determined to 'compete more aggressively' for less privileged students

• Brown calls on Oxbridge graduates to teach in tough inner-city schools

  Feb 10 2008:

  PM launches education offensive as adviser bids to strengthen No 10 team

• Private firm wins state funding to widen Oxbridge intake

  Nov 19 2007:

  Government funding for disadvantaged pupils is being used for Oxbridge preparation courses run by a controversial private company

• Denham: universities must reach out to talent

  Nov 8 2007:

  The universities secretary has renewed his attack on the social bias of top universities, saying they fail to attract enough students from poor homes

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