According to latest reports, my university is still very much a snob school - although it is making some attempts to increase its proportion of 'working class' students:
'Cambridge has the smallest proportion of working class students of a major university, just 9%, with Oxford, and Bristol - which has started to offer places with lower grades to some state school applicants - not far away.'
I remember Mark, who was in my criminal law class during the first year. He was actually a mechanic from London. He was on some assistance program and was settling into student life well.
However, 1997 was the year that university fees were introduced at £1000. Before that, these lucky Brits were getting free education! However that amount was enough to get Mark sent home because he didn't have enough subsidies to continue his education. I wonder how he's doing now.
And we also had a horrifying dropout rate - about 50 out of 250 students left law school in the first year alone. They do nasty things to law students, they do! Like reading endless amounts of judicial gibberish and listening to boring Public law lectures. And I wonder how I managed to climb to the top of the tower for tutorials with all my books - in a matter of minutes.
'Cambridge has the smallest proportion of working class students of a major university, just 9%, with Oxford, and Bristol - which has started to offer places with lower grades to some state school applicants - not far away.'
I remember Mark, who was in my criminal law class during the first year. He was actually a mechanic from London. He was on some assistance program and was settling into student life well.
However, 1997 was the year that university fees were introduced at £1000. Before that, these lucky Brits were getting free education! However that amount was enough to get Mark sent home because he didn't have enough subsidies to continue his education. I wonder how he's doing now.
And we also had a horrifying dropout rate - about 50 out of 250 students left law school in the first year alone. They do nasty things to law students, they do! Like reading endless amounts of judicial gibberish and listening to boring Public law lectures. And I wonder how I managed to climb to the top of the tower for tutorials with all my books - in a matter of minutes.
Public law? Try reading on the European Institutions, EC external relations, the GATTS, WTOs, CCPs, CFSPs, Euro-Meds, Associations, co-operations, agreements* of the world! Boy... that was boring! (yes, even for me, the EC Competition queen..) Massive Respect to all Singaporean students who survived those....
*In case none of these rings any bells... Blame your..."bad memory" (?!)... WE WERE taught these! ;) :)
All right, Niki. You win, pants down. Oops. I meant, hands down. Well, I didn't. You know me. Oh how I miss my next-door neighbour!!! ;-) Beeep!
Hey, I can remember ONE WORD from EC Law. Handelgesselschaft. Name of some big case. Maybe it was to do with sweet liquor as it often does. Or, the export of blowup dolls from Amsterdam (actually, nah).