Middle class Oxford rejects are increasingly demanding explanations about why they missed out on a place, amid fear that they are being “squeezed out” by the university’s diversity drive.
Places should be given purely on merit.
There is no such thing as positive discrimination. Best candidates only, irrespective of race, religion, gender or bloody sexuality. If establishments like these go play identity politics then it's time to emigrate. You don't get the excuse of historical naivity
We need proportional diversity. 85% white 10 % BAME and 5% LBGT. That's the current consensus.
It’s amazing the hate in the comments about the white private schools students. This people need to realise they are the victims of the “sum zero economic fallacy”, if one gains is because somebody else lost. They are the perfect victim of Political Socialism, sad!
Wow so inclusive.
What ever happened to 'All we want is the best person'?
You really mean privately educated who think it’s their right to get into Oxford now realise there are students out there capable of getting better marks? Don’t call them middle classes please.
Soft description. Indeed British society strictly divided it's a mostly impossible task for a second class citizens to get good education or career.
They can always follow daddy into the Freemasons
What’s the point of Oxford, outside the sciences, other than a route to the administrative public sector & non jobs? Consider the embarrassingly awful people who run the colleges. Get a life - don’t go near the place.
Of course, a fair number of them now seem to be Jeremy Corbin’s ‘policy advisers’.
Diversity creates division. Why categorise people at all?
There is a lesson to be learned here... if you are white, Christian or male in the UK beat them at their own game. Identify as A-gender or a Demiboy no need to go full trans, put it on your job applications and uni applications and watch them fall over themselves to get you in 💩
Ridiculous pc rubbish
more discrimination by left wing zealots against whites. Just as disgusting as discrimination against bame's.
Good. We need integrity not diversity.
They should just get their dad to ring up and ask for a place.
So some people access university on diversity grounds? FFS! 🙄
So many wrong things with this headline. Unbelievable.
Just claim you are Welsh
some are gay surely?
university is for everyone now, places not given on merit but to fill quotas.
Stop existing
Outside M25 and Lon luvvie world diversity does not happen ..... think on journos !!