The dumbing down of Oxbridge

For years now, higher education has been convulsed by a never-ending hunt for racism. A certain type of academic or student activist sees it oozing out of every pore of campus life, from statues to ‘microaggressions’ to student bar fancy-dress nights.

And yet, if you were looking for a clear-cut example of a racist university policy, you’d struggle to find one more outrageously racist than this: dumbing down exam practices so as to better accommodate ethnic-minority students. Welcome to 21st-century academia, where you can’t wear a sombrero but you can lowkey suggest black and brown people are stupid.

This is the news, reported in the Telegraph, that Oxford and Cambridge have been ‘given the green light’ to move away from ‘traditional’ exams so as to improve the prospects of ethnic minorities and poorer students. This was revealed in Oxford and Cambridge’s new ‘Access and Participation Plans’, which have reportedly been given the thumbs up by the Office for Students.