Oxford and Cambridge are too good and too important to be allowed to remain in the middle ages
News that Oxford and Cambridge cut the number of UK undergraduates over the past 10 years – when many other universities increased theirs – and recruited more international students instead highlights the exceptionalism of England’s two oldest but oddest universities.
They are the commanding heights of our higher education system, and close to the top of global university league tables. Their dreaming spires and sheltered quadrangles and courts are part of England’s timeless heritage. Both their success and antiquity make it difficult to ask the question whether they are still fit for purpose in the 21st century.
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