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‘Elite’ universities still blighted by snobbery
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Merseyside’s proud tradition of internationalism is being kept alive through events organised by trade unionists and allies in the region, writes ROBERT MACDONALD
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Les Preger was one of Manchester’s first volunteers to volunteer in support of republican Spain, writes his daughter JANEY PREGER
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
POLITICIANS are very keen to blame teachers for failing to inspire pupils with sufficient aspiration and confidence to persuade them to apply to Oxbridge and other so-called “elite” universities, and less enthusiastic about criticising the universities themselves for creating a self-reinforcing spiral.
Of course, governments have to accept responsibility for underfunding schools and closing SureStart centres, but universities have the means to improve social mobility at a stroke, and refuse to do it.
Back in October last year David Lammy revealed how both Oxford and Cambridge, recipients of over £800 million of taxpayers’ money each year, enrol consistently around 80 per cent of their intake from the top two social classes, with more offers being made to pupils from Eton than to students on free school meals across the whole country. Unsurprisingly, the number of ethnic minority students accepted is so low that Lammy concluded there has to be “systematic bias.”
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