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How Britain’s private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge
“Five years ago, my son would have got a place at Oxford. But now the bar has shifted and he didn’t,” says my friend, a City of London executive who has put several children through elite private schools in Britain. “I think he got short-changed.”
I’ve been hearing this more and more from fellow parents with kids at top day and boarding schools in recent years. Some of it sounds like whining: most of us like to think the best of our progeny. But my friend has a point. After years of hand-wringing about unequal access to elite higher education, admissions standards are finally shifting.
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Ramadhan, I decided to do another book challenge with a difference: finishing a novel of two parts. On my book shelf where books are hardly moving due to lack of time for reading I’m barely finishing a book per month I picked up two books that were gifted to me by my brother in 2007. They are part of a series called The Time’s Tapestry by Stephen.