The Office for Fair Access was set up to monitor university admissions after a row about the scarcity of working-class youngsters at Oxbridge colleges.

OFFA是在一次有关剑桥大学年轻劳动者不够多的争吵后建立起来的。

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You don't have to go to Oxbridge to receive a good university education.

不上牛津剑桥也可获得良好的大学教育。

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Oxbridge is a composite of the two most renowned universities in Britain, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, which was founded by scholars fleeing Oxford in 1209.

牛桥，是英国最著名的两所大学牛津大学和剑桥大学的合称。 剑桥大学是由 1209年从牛津大学逃离的学者们建立的。

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"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.

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But the schools system has been geared to providing University (and principally Oxbridge) entrants for far too long to the detriment of the majority of children, and no matter how they disguise it it's obvious that many people want to retain that system because that's the only way they can see of protecting the perceived quality of a university degree.

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And British university students, especially those at Oxbridge, come disproportionately from prosperous families.

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