We toffs don't need to go to Oxbridge

If public school-educated kids were barred from university, they'd only make the most of the opportunity There is still a month to go until the A-level results come out (plenty of time to dye your hair blonde and have a boob job so you can get your picture on the front of The Daily Telegraph squealing over a stunt envelope), and already I'm reading all the usual guff about inequality in the university entrance systems. “The spread of individual university entrance exams, the arrival of the A*, and the proliferation of new qualifications...” The Guardian claims, “make this a very uneven playing field.” In short, everyone will get straight As as usual and so universities will have to find other ways of discriminating between identical candidates. These methods will (inevitably) be class-biased, and once again there won't be... [read full story]