What’s the quickest way to make the two most famous universities in the world go wrong? Make it easier to get in. That’s exactly what Oxford and Cambridge appear to have done in recent years. And so – no surprise – it’s just been announced that neither university was in the top three British universities for the first time since the records, produced by the Times , began 32 years ago.

Oxford’s slipping standards don’t just apply to those trying to win a place

This decline must at least partly be blamed on the universities offering ‘contextual offers’ or using ‘contextual data’ in assessing applicants who may have lower grades. It appears to be under this flawed system that the president-elect of the Oxford Union, George Abaraonye , got into Oxford with just ABB in his A-Levels. He’s

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