Growing up in the Timperley area of Trafford, the working-class daughter of a clothes factory machinist and an airport cargo worker, Caroline Burt had parents who wanted her to have the opportunities they'd never enjoyed.
Read more: Kids grow up in the shadow of our city's skyscrapers... but many can't see how to get there Encouraged by her teachers, she got into Cambridge University's Churchill College to study history. And now an academic at the same university, she's trying to get more Northern students with backgrounds like hers to follow the same path.In 2019/20 67% of school leavers who went to Oxbridge from state-funded schools and colleges came from either the South or East of England. Only 20% came from the North.
And this week at Haydock Park on Merseyside Cambridge colleges with links to the North West are hosting a day-long conference, attended by hundreds of local students. "And the natural instinct is to think 'I don't fit in here. There aren't enough people like me, something's wrong.' And actually there are quite a lot of people like you, you're probably just not realising that there are and you can fit in and you can be absolutely fine."
"And it's very, very important that people understand they can be on their radar, that they are not institutions that only the social elite go to. And that's a message we have to get across, because it hasn't always been there.
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