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Tag: University Challenge; representation; Oxford; diversity; tokenisation

Starter for ten, love? University Challenge and its representation problem

22nd December 202022nd December 2020Jade Calder

When I was in my early teens I read Starter for Ten, a novel about a working-class lad who manages to get on his university’s University Challenge team, one bored summer. Since then, it has been a quiet dream of mine to get to university, against the odds assigned to me on account of my […]

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