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Sprint star Amy Hunt puts Oxbridge mentoring mission before red carpets

The 23-year-old secured silver in the women’s 200m at last year’s World Championships in Tokyo.

The Independent UK

British sprint star Amy Hunt on red carpets, racing Keely Hodgkinson, and the path to becoming ‘one of the greats’

INTERVIEW: Amy Hunt, 23, stunned the world when she won 200m silver in the World Athletics Championships last year. Her life is very different six months on, she tells Flo Clifford, but amid the whirl of red carpets, she remains fixated on reaching the top – and breaking down barriers…

The Independent UK

No 1 for nuns! Níall McLaughlin is architecture’s discreet daredevil – and deserves its top award

Forget brash statement projects – Riba’s prestigious gold medal has gone to a pivotal figure who works above an Aldi and designs billowing bandstands, jewel-like chapels and buildings that change colour

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Extra Geography review – a sweet and spiky coming-of-age debut

Two teenage girls find their friendship put to the test in a witty and charmingly odd British comedy

The Guardian - US

Eat the Rich (But Maybe Not Me Mates x) review – a class comedy grounded in cheeky charisma

4/5 Jade Franks’ laugh-out-loud account of swapping Liverpool for Oxbridge has drawn comparisons to Fleabag, but her voice is unmistakably her own

The Independent UK

Jade Franks on how cleaning toilets at Cambridge inspired her hit show: ‘I’m not watering down the fury – just sneaking it through the back door’

The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn’t. Now she’s determined to use success to bring more working-class voices into comedy

The Guardian - UK

Charlie Woods Helps High School Win Regional Title On Route To State Championship Return

The son of Tiger Woods led the way for his Benjamin School team as they comfortably beat the reigning Class 1A state champions to lift the region title

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In The Eleventh Hour, Salman Rushdie writes like he’s running out of time

Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories urgently recollects his literary legacy. It’s as though time is increasingly uncertain so the need to tell stories is great.

The Conversation

18-year-olds applying for early deadline university courses hits record high

Applicants for undergraduate medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and Oxbridge had to submit by October 15.

Evening Standard

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

The Guardian - UK

Oxford, Cambridge No Longer Part of Top 3 Universities in the UK: Who Took Their Place?

Oxford & Cambridge out of UK's top 3 for first time in Sunday Times Guide 2025—LSE leads, St Andrews & Durham rise

International Business Times UK

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs

Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

The Guardian - UK

‘Little progress’ made opening up top jobs to state-educated people – charity

The Sutton Trust said the most influential people in the UK remain five times more likely to have gone to a private school than the general population

Evening Standard

Eat the Rich (But Maybe Not Me Mates X) review – scorching comedy about class privilege

This tremendous solo show by Jade Franks uses deep rage and deadpan wit to skewer the ruling class

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Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem

The British media has a class problem, according to recent research by The Sutton Trust. In short, the privately educated are over-represented in the creative industries, especially in film and television. The trust’s report, A Class Act (2024), demonstrates that this area of British culture is disproportionately produced by the…

The Independent UK

Imperial beats Oxbridge in global university rankings for second year in a row

Oxford fell from third to fourth place, while Cambridge fell from fifth to sixth in the global rankings for 2026.

The Guardian - UK

Staff and students fight loss of A-levels at London college helping disadvantaged learners

BSix in Hackney gives pupils a second chance academically but new owner wants to focus on vocational courses

The Independent UK

Voices: Trump’s attack on Harvard is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for British universities

COMMENT: The UK’s demoralised and underfunded university sector could build some confidence – and some money – by sweeping up would-be Ivy League students, writes Chris Blackhurst

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The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama’s Story of Us review – not a good look for a noted professor

This cultural history of the British people is a vague, subjective take that lurches into the reactionary when it tackles social media. It’s a far cry from being a ‘major’ series

The Guardian - UK

Paul Mescal interviews Ridley Scott: ‘I was so ahead of the game. The Oxbridge lot were aghast’

As Gladiator II roars into the arena, its Oscar-winning director and star talk about horse-riding, Blade Runner, vodka, Scorsese, Elon Musk, vulnerability, AI … and Russell Crowe

The Independent UK

Focus on final-year exams at Oxbridge may disadvantage female students – report

The assessment system at Oxford and Cambridge could be worse for women as they tend to be more risk averse and can suffer from PMS, a report suggests.

The Guardian - UK

Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class

Golf Monthly

'Wasn't Pretty But Got The Job Done' - Charlie Woods Helps High-School Team Win First Postseason Event

The Benjamin School won the District 13-1A championship by two strokes after Woods came sixth in the individual competition

The Guardian - UK

DfE to stop grading English schools based on proportion of Russell Group students

Updated accountability measures aim to encourage school leavers towards wider range of institutions and vocational options

The National (Scotland)

What is the acceptance rate for undergraduates at the University of St Andrews?

Here is everything you need to know about the acceptance rate at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, as the institution tops Oxbridge in a new…

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