Rubbish

Terribly sad that an 800 year old tradition is being tossed to the wayside. Just think about it: this has been happening for 800 years---since 1200 A.D. Think of all that has happened since then. Think of all the English scholars who have attended Oxford in the last 800 years and whose alma mater is being targeted by the PC police. Rotten.

AFP: Oxford loses 800-year right to choose undergrads---

LONDON (AFP) - The colleges of Britain's prestigious Oxford University will lose their 800-year-old right to choose their undergraduates amid government pressure to admit more students from state schools and lower social classes.

Instead, admissions will be centralized to encourage applications from pupils from broad-based secondary schools who find current arrangements "confusing and opaque", the university said, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Pupils will apply to the university, not a specific college, and will be interviewed and selected by the appropriate department, not by their potential tutors, the university said.

The university admitted that as a result, colleges will lose autonomy and individuality, according to the newspaper.

Candidates will be able to state a college preference once they have been offered a place but in principle all successful applicants will be centrally ranked on the basis of their performance, then distributed randomly, it added.

Might as well take the Tower down.