If anybody wants to know why 'state school' children may not actually want to go to Oxbridge could do no better than follow the Times coverage of Jacqui Smiths 'dope taking' confession
How has all this old fashioned English snobbery re-emerged? Doors to manual & all that
Since when has a headmasters daughter been working class? Or the son of a minor literary figure upper class?
Who wants to be at college with such braying unpleasant drunken violent oafs? Even if they have their 'amusing' moments. They are hopeless in bed
Oxbridge clearly is the place to be for a certain kind of learning in a certain range of subjects. But, whatever your class, other universities are streets ahead in their speciality
Problem is, teachers. The best performance indicator for a teacher is to send a pupil to Oxbridge
