• The Laura Spence affair was a British political controversy in 2000, ignited after the failure of state school pupil Laura Spence to secure a place at...
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    Monkseaton High School became a focus for the national media during the Laura Spence Affair. This was a major political argument about elitism in University...
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  • accused Oxford University of elitism in its admissions procedures. The Laura Spence Affair, as it became known, is one of the most publicised cases of an Oxbridge...
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  • issue of widening participation became a political issue after the Laura Spence Affair which hit the headlines in 2000, and after the University of Bristol...
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    starting a political row about higher education (referred to as the Laura Spence affair) when he accused the University of Oxford of elitism in its admissions...
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    of Burke's Peerage Tszwai So 1981 Architect Laura Spence 1982 Physician, known for the Laura Spence Affair concerning her initial rejection from Magdalen...
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  • admissions has attracted public controversy through episodes such as the Laura Spence Affair in 2000. Gaining places at Oxford and Cambridge remains a central...
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    a major political row about higher education (referred to as the Laura Spence affair) when he accused the University of Oxford of elitism in its admissions...
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    widening participation that occurred during the 2000s. In 2000 the Laura Spence Affair involved the rejection of a state school student who applied to study...
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    Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (/ˈloʊəl/; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could...
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