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Editors' pick
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Fran Abrams asks, is the new Cambridge Pre-U useful or merely an elitist qualification?
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Oct 27 2008:
Eight years after rejection from Oxford, Laura Spence collects medical degree
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Sep 2 2008:
Admissions procedures are becoming fairer all the time, but there is room for improvement. By Elfi Pallis
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Aug 12 2008:
The simple fact is that Oxford wants the brightest, most academically committed kids as its undergraduates, says Tom Kemp
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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
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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
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Apr 4 2008:
Applications from students from state schools this academic year fell by 5%, following a comparable fall last year
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Mar 27 2008:
A £4m gift from an educational philanthropist will boost Cambridge University's efforts to attract more applicants from state schools
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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
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Feb 17 2008:
University determined to 'compete more aggressively' for less privileged students
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Feb 10 2008:
PM launches education offensive as adviser bids to strengthen No 10 team
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Nov 19 2007:
Government funding for disadvantaged pupils is being used for Oxbridge preparation courses run by a controversial private company
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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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