In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country.
Both Oxford and Cambridge say they have been working hard to attract Welsh pupils.
In the 2010-2011 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Oxford and Cambridge rank similarly to Harvard and Princeton.
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It is certainly striking that from all of Europe only Oxford and Cambridge feature in the top 20.
Prosecutor Louis Mably said the race between Oxford and Cambridge was spoiled for hundreds of thousands of people.
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The Russell Group of universities - which includes Oxford and Cambridge - had 46% of all the language undergraduates.
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The children did well, with excellent exam results and plenty of places offered by highly-regarded universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
Lewys Martin, previously from Walmer in Kent, took the websites of Kent Police, as well as Oxford and Cambridge Universities, offline.
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Meanwhile, the watchdog has launched an investigation into BBC One's coverage of the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Oxford and Cambridge universities are the best places in the world to study seven key academic subjects, according to a new international table.
The study, by the National Centre for Social Research, shows a varied picture, with Oxford and Cambridge accounting for half the new funds.
Sure it has acclaimed universities like Oxford and Cambridge, along with two Nobel physics prize winners last week who came from the University of Manchester.
But his many commissions with Vanbrugh at Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, and by himself at Easton Neston, Oxford and Cambridge prove he was no rebel angel.
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Even if the college fee in its present form is ended, it need not spell the end of high-quality individual teaching at Oxford and Cambridge.
The reason why there are few former state-school pupils at Oxford and Cambridge, they suggest, is that they do not get good enough exam results.
It wants the government to relax planning restrictions in the biotechnology hotspots around the ivory towers of Oxford and Cambridge, where their expansion is currently restricted.
Both Oxford and Cambridge routinely issue a broad collection of statistics relating to admissions, such as gender, ethnicity, disability, region and school type of candidates.
Most Oxbridge colleges make efforts to build links with state schools that would not normally send pupils to Oxford and Cambridge, although some try harder than others.
The notion that Tony Blair is content to make Oxford and Cambridge the preserve of the wealthy by frightening away able students of modest means is even more ludicrous.
In three years' time, Oxford and Cambridge will lose the extra college fees they get from the government and will be funded along the same lines as other universities.
Again the most prestigious universities drew the smallest number of children from poorer families - with less than 10% of students at Oxford and Cambridge being drawn from deprived areas.
The profession most dominated by Oxford and Cambridge graduates was the diplomatic service at 62%, followed by the law at 58% and the top echelons of the civil service at 55%.
Whether through his athletic achievements, or as a committed ambassador of sport, Roger regularly takes part in live radio and television interviews, and has debated in both Oxford and Cambridge Unions.
Oxford and Cambridge take the top two places, with four other UK universities also in the global top ten: the London School of Economics (LSE), Durham, University College London (UCL) and Manchester.
Looking at English census records since 1800, they picked out names such as Bazalgette and Leschallas and compared them with records of students at elite institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge universities.
The Crimson football team won the Rose Bowl in the leather-helmet days and famously tied Yale in 1968, and the Harvard rowers can hold their own against Oxford and Cambridge in the Henley Regatta.
While they have both just celebrated 800 years of scholarly study, the key attribute Oxford and Cambridge universities share is a fierce pride - and a powerful urge to put one over on their rival.
Oxford and Cambridge date back centuries.
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Those who agree with the chancellor's view that Oxford and Cambridge are biased towards rich children, educated in expensive private schools, sometimes claim that the proportion of Oxford's intake from private schools has gone up from 38% in 1970 to 49% now.
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