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#OXBRIDGE
Oxbridge graduates will no longer enjoy a fast-track to the top of the BBC as new Director General Tim Davie pledged to recruit staff from a broader range of backgrounds.
@drjaninaramirez, who works for the BBC, tweeted: “I hate it when I see #Oxbridge trending. The posts always assume anyone to do with Oxford or Cambridge are overprivileged rich kids. But this totally overlooks graduates, like me, who worked so hard against the odds & won our place there through graft. It’s not cut n dry.”
@Esoterikalrgi wrote: “The kids that earn their place at this institution in spite of their background, not because of it, aren't ‘privileged’ other than in their ability to work hard or their naturally given intelligence. This privilege narrative is just crab bucket spite.”
@Adammcquade wrote: “Oxbridge has the best and the brightest? Boris and Diane Abbott went there. Along with most Corbynites and the current Tory cabinet.”
@Emmajanreeves added: “I went to Oxford, spent most of my time acting. A handful of working-class, state educated girls were considered the best actors in the year. None of them made it in the way the wellconnected, privileged dynasty members did. Oxbridge is a symptom, not a cause.”
#FMQS
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed questions at Holyrood.
@Grahamggrant wrote: “Sturgeon’s claim ordinary people don’t care about her conduct as FM seems a desperate gambit... she didn’t really look like even she believed it.”
@Billwyper wrote: “As an ordinary person I definitely care about the conduct of the individual elected to lead the country as it is extremely naive to claim otherwise.”
@Lyctande tweeted: “I lost count of the number of times she used phrases designed to get the sympathy vote - how difficult it was for her, how she didn't take decisions lightly, how she had nothing to hide - all while her fan club clapped to order behind her. Pathetic.”
@Henryhepburn wrote: “It's a sign of how much is going on just now that we can get through #FMQS (well over an hour of it today) without a mention of education, despite everything that was announced yesterday.”