Toby Young’s identified why university applications are down – our favourite 19 responses
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https://twitter.com/sazmeister88/status/1028684185077202944
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Let me guess: 1. An ageing population with a smaller number of 18 year olds, therefore smaller cohort. 2. High fees putting people off – e.g. Nursing degrees. Not all students have dads who can get them into Oxford when their grades are poor.
— Colin”Very stable genius” #FBPE (@colinth7) August 11, 2018
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Yes, that would be it. Nothing to do with incurring massive debts and the fact that many graduates now have no better employment prospects than non-graduates. https://t.co/sEpkoNrcE8
— GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) August 12, 2018
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Young people tell me it’s because they’re afraid of racking up £50k+ student debt in insecure zero hours job contract Brexit Britain. I guess your student experience was more financially secure – being wealthy + privileged as you are. So you don’t get that.
— Fair Minded #FBPE (@LiveNowHere) August 11, 2018
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Toby representing the hard of thinking again, in a logic-free brain dump https://t.co/UlIHxc4woO
— Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) August 12, 2018
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— Levi Roach (@DrLRoach) August 11, 2018
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The only reasonable conclusion, using his logic, is that they didn’t teach research or critical evaluation skills at Oxford when Toby went, since he clearly has none.
— Renée Stephen (@ReneeStephen) August 11, 2018
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Slightly unfair. They may have taught it. The fact Toby didn’t understand might be to do with the fact he only got in cox Daddy phoned a friend.
— Jennie Jordan (@JennieTweetz) August 11, 2018
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The number of daddys able to pull a place at University for their offspring must have dropped. https://t.co/9aY69ON1mS
— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) August 11, 2018
