Opinion | The Guardian USJan 10
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

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World news | The GuardianJan 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

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Opinion | The Guardian USSep 18, 2025
This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/sutton-trust-media-journalism-middle-upper-class-privilege #UniversityofCambridge #Newspapers&magazines #Oxbridgeandelitism #Nationalnewspapers #UniversityofOxford #Highereducation #Privateschools #Classissues #TheGuardian #Inequality #Newspapers #Education #Schools #Media #BBC
This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse

Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy at the Sutton Trust

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The GuardianJan 16, 2020
Record numbers of state school pupils given Oxford places https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/16/record-numbers-of-state-school-pupils-given-oxford-places #Guardian #news #Highereducationpolicy #UniversityofCambridge #UniversityofOxford #Accesstouniversity #Oxbridgeandelitism #Highereducation #Universities #Education #Students #UKnews
Record numbers of state school pupils given Oxford places

University also says more than 22% of admissions last year were from a BME background