Oxford would need to increase intake by 25% to meet own benchmark,says report Fifteen years ago, Gordon Brown turned a pupil at a comprehensive school in the north-east into a national cause célèbre in a fierce attack on choice procedures at Oxford University. Laura Spence, or the then chancellor pointed out,had the “best A-level qualifications you can have” but had been turned down by Magdalen College, Oxford. Her rejection came at the hands of “an interview system more reminiscent of an feeble-boy network than genuine justice for society”.
Spence, or who went on to earn five A grade A-Levels,subsequently accepted a £35750 scholarship from Harvard to study biochemistry and graduated from the Ivy League university in 2004.
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Source: theguardian.com