Sunday 23 August 2009

From Walford To Oxford?

A secular comp in a working-class area still having a Sixth Form is stretching it, to say the least. But sending two pupils to Oxford in one year? Yes, I know it's not real. But nor is it supposed to be set on a different planet.

State schools used to take seventy per cent of Oxbridge places, making Oxford and Cambridge academically serious institutions. Those schools were called grammar schools. Without them from which to admit, why care in the least about Oxbridge?

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