Christmas ruined because Oxbridge turned you down? Think again…
For a large number of young people this will be an Unhappy Christmas and an Appalling New Year. Among the brightest and the best, and probably told so for all their lives, they'll receive just before...
View ArticleCambridge must come clean on the £3.7 million it has received from a...
Cambridge University has accepted £3.7m from a Chinese foundation to endow a new professorship into Development Studies. In these cash-strapped times for higher education in Britain, it is easy to...
View ArticleAn A from Eton is worth less than an A from Scumbag Comprehensive, and...
At my college at Oxford, one of the rituals after you finish your final exams is that you have dinner with your tutors – the people who gave you your place, and who have supervised your entire...
View ArticleState school teachers' hopeless lack of ambition is why Oxford is so full of...
If I were to draw up an Oscar-style acceptance speech for the fact that I seem be doing OK in life, after burbling through my parents, grandparents, girlfriend, friends and so on, I'd have to mention...
View ArticleMichael Moritz's £75 million donation to Oxford University could be used better
There is a wonderful moment in Yes, Prime Minister which says a lot about how we think about education. According to Sir Humphrey, the lizard-like permanent secretary in Jim Hacker’s fictional office,...
View ArticleThis will destroy the magic of Oxford and Cambridge
When you hear a child screaming for a sweetie or a new toy at the checkout, you at least have the consolation that there is usually a parent in tow who can refuse the demand. The problem with...
View ArticleThe curse of carol services – entertainment for 'Christmas tourists' who...
For many churchgoers this Christmas, the trip won’t have anything to do with religion. It’s tourist season and the hot destination for travellers is God. Time to pack your hymnals and lay out your...
View ArticleCambridge students pose as Etonians and tell applicants: only public school...
Here's a cracking story broken by the Cambridge edition of The Tab, our online newspaper for students: Three Jesus College students have posed as applicants from Eton in a bid to frighten interviewees....
View ArticleOxbridge types are smug, but not as bad as the bitter rejects who mimic...
You might imagine the most comical of all university tribes to be the self-satisfied elite who populate Oxford and Cambridge. Not so. In fact it's the Oxbridge Reject, a bitter species which swells its...
View ArticleFirst they came for the jelly-wrestlers…
Online petitions are one of the curses of our age. They're a curse, of course, because the people they're invariably aimed at are shrill, bitter lefties who've got nothing better to do with their...
View ArticleIf Oxbridge stopped taking undergrads, Middle England would riot; but...
There’s a golden moment in The Thick of It when the minister for paperclips reveals his deep dislike of the average voter. “I know this is what they think people like me think,” he says, “so I hate...
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