Oxbridge

The beautiful city of Cambridge has an enviable reputation as one of the world’s greatest universities as well as being an agreeable place to live and work. The inhabitants enjoy low unemployment, a cluster of good schools and plenty of green spacious parkland. The river Cam provides a focal point in the summer with its flotilla of punts gliding around gentle bends overhung with lush willows. Two vibrant communities Cambridge is a city of two vibrant communities, that despite a chequered past of

strenuous profession considering all the influences that mold and shape children. In the play by Alan Bennett, The History Boys, the seventeen-year-old boys are confronted with the realities of educational climate at the time as they try to get into Oxbridge. The Headmaster (of …) wishes that all of the boys would get into Oxford or University of Cambridge to prove to the bureaucrats of the British education system. Irwin is introduced as the supply teacher that will provide this extra push and supplement

Determining the Elite Within Politics and the Judiciary Abstract To begin addressing this question, it was first necessary to define the term elite. From here, it was then possible to clarify the specific positions within the upper ranks of politics and the senior judiciary that I would be examining. Once this was established, the relationship between British elites and the social structure both past and present was outlined, along with the basic views of those who

Developing a career in the legal profession has proven to be difficult in terms of the obvious; achieving the grades, obtaining work experience, completing a Bar or LPC etc. However what most people disregard are the barriers that most underrepresented groups face that prevent the advancement of them being able to succeed in developing a legal career. Succeeding the legal profession for the minority of people proves to be difficult as the legal field is considered to discriminate on the basis of

Together with Irwin and Hector, she makes sure that the boys will pass the exam. She teaches history to the students as what inscribed on the books and hesitatingly lets Irwin shapes the mindset of the boys for she knows that the boys will not get the Oxbridge scholarship if they are still as innocent as the previous semester. Her biggest attention is given to the boys and their progress. She wants them to pass, but unlike the headmaster she is not a narrow-minded person that does anything, no matter what

How is migration and the refugees affecting the UK? Introduction I am going to be writing about the positives and negatives of the immigration which is occurring in the UK and how it is affecting our daily lives and wither “Brexit” is a good or bad thing. At the moment I think that immigration isn’t as bad as people believe it to be and should not be the reason to support “Brexit” as many people already do. However, I will be doing a non-bias research to prove my point or change it. This image is

happened to come on the short end of the stick. Palmer 2 In A Room of Own's One, Woolf does express how society is more tilted than the Leaning Tower of Pisa... She tells that she has been denied an opportunity because she is a woman. She was reject by Oxbridge, a literary institute and the very same college that her brothers and

Assess and explain the impact of social class on inequalities in educational outcomes. A good education is vital in succeeding within many industries in the UK, from Business to Medicine, Politics to Art. It unfortunately does not come as a surprise that only 58.6% of students attained 5 or more GCSE’s at grades A* to C (Department for Education 2012). In comparison, albeit falling this year on previous years, 94.4% of students in private schools attained the same results (The Independent 2012a)

this is because one may be turned off by only words and need something more real to comprehend. The essay A Room of One’s Own demonstrates the connection between women and the structures of society in its time. The narrator depicts small events at Oxbridge University that bring

ESSAY The concept of devolution was first introduced in 1998 in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is made up of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Devolution can be defined as the process whereby the central authority delegates part of her powers to the local or regional authority to exercise on her behalf. In this case, the UK parliament, which is the central authority, transfers some of its powers to the local authorities which are the Scottish parliament, the Northern Ireland