Death knell for our finest universities

COMPREHENSIVE schooling was never about education. It was a fanatical plan to turn our schools into engines of equality. And proper centres of excellence, such as Oxford and Cambridge universities, cannot co-exist with that.

Either they continue to select on merit, which means taking as many students as possible from private or grammar schools, or they submit – as they are now doing – to the equality fanatics.

Of course, the revival of grammar schools in poor areas would have avoided this, but nobody will do that.

So get ready for Oxbridge Comprehensive, tumbling down the world league tables.