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No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/private-schools-reverse-discrimination-cambridge-university-trinity-hall #UniversityOfCambridge #OxbridgeAndElitism #Education #PrivateSchools #Admissions #SocialMobility #AccessToUniversity #HigherEducation #Students #Society #Schools #UkNews

No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, Lee Elliot Major

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian Jan 8

‘Immoral’: Cambridge college urged to drop private school recruitment drive https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jan/08/university-of-cambridge-trinity-hall-recruitment-private-schools #UniversityOfCambridge #OxbridgeAndElitism #PrivateSchools #Admissions #SocialMobility #AccessToUniversity #Students #HigherEducation #Universities #HigherEducationPolicy #Schools #Society #Education #UkNews

‘Immoral’: Cambridge college urged to drop private school recruitment drive

Alastair Campbell joins graduates and social mobility charities in criticism of Trinity Hall’s ‘immoral’ policy

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian Jan 4

‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jan/04/oh-my-gosh-theyre-all-from-london-and-cambridge-york-universitys-northerners-fight-back #HigherEducation #Students #NorthOfEngland #UniversityOfYork #AccessToUniversity #Language #Education #UkNews #Yorkshire

‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners

The Guardian

Higher Education R & D Journal Sep 1, 2023

Conceptualising prospective first-generation entrants’ higher education decision-making as an ‘ecology of intersecting influences’ and an ‘elastic plane’

Louise Gazeley & Tamsin Hinton-Smith

🔓 → https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2228221

#HigherEd #AccesstoUniversity #StudentDiversity #FirstGenerationStudents #WideningParticipation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿