Down with Oxbridge hegemony:
He said: “We are going to have a super Ivy League of Imperial, UCL, LSE, and then Oxbridge won’t be so apart, which must be good for our society. We are already getting towards it.”
Dr Hands is Master of Magdalen College School, in Oxford, which is sending 47 pupils to Oxford and Cambridge this year and has some of the best A-level results in England.
But he said: “If we can get rid of the Oxbridge hegemony it will be so much better for young people. Just as the 11-plus divided people into sheep and goats, anything that makes people at 18 think they are sheep and goats is bad or must be in danger of being bad.
"So if we could have a perception that there is a wider set of top universities, that will have to be good. And there are many signs that is happening.”
This is an odd argument. If there are some 160 Universities and higher education institutions in the UK, it is clear that the number of goats who make it into Oxbridge is far greater than the number of sheep who do not.
Expanding the goat universities by three three to create a grand total of five means that there will still be an overwhelming number of sheep. Discrimination!
