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Oxbridge lowered its grades for me, did they lower their standards?

Cambridge admitting disadvantaged students with BBB will identify talent, not undermine it 13 January 2021 • 2:42pm I m not your typical Oxbridge student: I first noticed it my freshers’ week at Oxford, when a girl I was chatting to was visibly shocked on hearing that I live in a council house. I don’t notice it any less now that I’m in my third year, even if starting to drop my Newcastle accent means that people are more inclined to treat me as ‘one of them’. I’m just about to graduate, but I still have the impostor syndrome that most working-class Oxbridge students hold in common - the feeling that we’re only here to fill quotas and to make our universities look charitable in the press. 

In pictures: Dunfermline s entertainment venues from years gone by

IN THIS week s trip down West Fife s Memory Lane, we look at some of the venues that once provided entertainment for the people of Dunfermline. The first is the Music Hall and City Theatre , situated off Guildhall Street, which opened with a grand concert on December 30, 1852. The Main Hall held 1,500 people, and in 1860 a large gallery holding a further 500 patrons was added with its entrance in Fishmarket Close (now called Music Hall Lane). Our first image shows the pyramidal roof of the building as seen from the Abbey graveyard. The venue attracted variety companies from around Britain, as well as dioramas, concerts (including the Dunfermline Philharmonic Society), minstrel shows, lectures, exhibitions, dinners and balls. A ball was organised for the annual trades holiday in August 1865 with newspaper reports praising it as being able to catch the various excursionists as they enter the city and prevent them mauling their bodies and brains in the public houses. A very go

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