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Oxbridge accused of ‘social apartheid’
Think tank calls on top universities to close race gap

LABOUR MP David Lammy has accused Oxford and Cambridge universities of “social apartheid” after giving offers to only a handful of black students.

Just three of Oxford’s 32 colleges have made an offer to a black A-level applicant every year between 2010 and 2015, Mr Lammy revealed.

He accused the universities of “systematic bias,” saying that “many Oxbridge colleges are still fiefdoms of entrenched privilege, the last bastions of the old school tie.”

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