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Oxbridge and elitism

June 2024

  • Tutor teaching private lessons to a young child.

    The booming world of specialised private education for the super-rich

    Offer of £2m to tutor architecture student is latest sign of a new frontier in achieving a competitive advantage

May 2024

  • Ben Bradshaw.

    Brief letters
    Ben Bradshaw is still wrong on Iraq and the Guardian

    Brief letters: Poor judgment | State school kids at Oxbridge | Assisted dying | A quick baked potato

April 2024

  • Newspapers reporting on King Charles’s health are seen on a newsstand in London

    Brief letters
    What the papers say is still seen by many who don’t buy them

  • The Imperial College London team on University Challenge

    A challenge to the BBC’s Oxbridge bias

March 2024

  • Helen Mountfield, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.

    Oxbridge must help pupils from state schools succeed, college head says

    Helen Mountfield, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, hopes to raise £100m to help improve outcomes

February 2024

  • Students at a graduation ceremony

    Elite universities and professions are still the preserve of the middle classes

    Letters: In response to a piece by Gaby Hinsliff, Dr Siân Lawrence says we’re not sliding back to the days of class privilege – we never left them behind

December 2023

  • Barry Keoghan in Saltburn.

    ‘It could be an advert for Oxford’: what does Saltburn say about class and privilege in the UK?

    From searing commentary to narrative confusion, Emerald Fennell’s lavish, shocking film has divided critics since its release. Now Guardian writers weigh in

May 2023

  • Frances Ryan

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

    Frances Ryan
    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

March 2023

  • A high landscape view of Oxford.

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

  • Jeremy Paxman presenting an episode of University Challenge.

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

  • Oxford's Balliol College and Wolfson College, Cambridge in the University Challenge

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

  • The 2015 University Challenge final

    BBC rejects charge of elitist Oxbridge bias in University Challenge

February 2023

  • A university graduate wearing a mortarboard hat looks up at a glass-ceilinged office

    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

January 2023

  • Black, female university graduates throw mortar-board hats in the air

    Elite power in Britain
    Elite universities aren’t hotbeds of ‘wokery’: our research shows they’re rife with racism and classism

    Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers
    In both the US and the UK, students described being told that they were beneficiaries of affirmative action, write authors Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers

August 2022

  • Simon Jenkins

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

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

May 2022

  • Kings College, Cambridge, viewed from the backs.

    Nadhim Zahawi’s Oxbridge claim is an insult to state school students

  • Nadhim Zahawi answers questions from year 5 pupils after reading a commemorative platinum jubilee book during a visit to Manor Park primary school in Sutton, south London

    Zahawi rejects idea Oxbridge should ‘tilt system’ to accept more state pupils

November 2021

  • Trinity College, Cambridge.

    England’s most prestigious universities failing to boost social mobility, IFS finds

    Research comes as government details measures that compel universities to do more to help graduates

September 2021

  • Trinity College, Cambridge.

    Oxbridge student groups to be exempt from free speech law

    Labour MPs accuse government of ‘ridiculous’ double standards and warn of two-tier university system

March 2021

  • The Saïd business school in Oxford

    Oxford University uses lockdown loophole to allow in-person MBA teaching

    Students on prestigious course will be back on campus at least a month before others are permitted to return
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