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Cambridge college urged to drop ‘immoral’ private school recruitment drive

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Trinity Hall graduates and leading social mobility charities have called on the University of Cambridge college to scrap its controversial efforts to actively recruit students from elite private schools, describing the new policy as damaging, offensive and a step backwards for equality.

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  • Lee Elliot Major: No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | The Guardian

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