Shock horror. A Cambridge college has realised that to recruit the brightest students sometimes you have to encourage students from private schools as well as state comprehensives in poor neighbourhoods. You can almost feel the foundations of higher education quivering at Trinity Hall’s decision to write to private schools to encourage pupils to apply for certain subjects, such as languages and classics where there is presumably a dearth of applications.

Trinity Hall’s ‘targeted recruitment strategy’ has sparked fury

Predictably, Trinity Hall’s ‘targeted recruitment strategy’ has sparked fury. One college staff member said it was a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated undergraduates. Lee Elliot Major, not the bionic man from the 1970 series but the Professor of Social Mobility at the........

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