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He said that he had a broad understanding of the state system. "At Eton I was the beneficiary of a scholarship endowed by Henry VI," he says. "If that is not state education I don't know what is."
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In another college, lecturers had been ordered not to recruit to any courses people who "looked as if they were likely to fail". How were they supposed to identify such people, Roger Kline [of UCU] asked. They are young, black and male, and they wear hoods, came the reply.
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