Cambridge professors/lecturers

annie91

I wonder if any of the Professors or Lecturers at Cambridge were educated at state schools?

Reply 1

MC REN

seems unlikely

Reply 2

Scipio90

I wonder what it's like to be a swan.

Reply 3

Alewhey

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Reply 4

nuodai

One of the people who interviewed me (a prof in CompSci) went to a state school near mine.

Reply 5

JFJ

Alewhey

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Reply 6

The West Wing

I imagine not many because of the generational gap.

Reply 7

Yes of course, as long as you're counting grammar schools as state schools that is.

Reply 8

MC REN

yer the generational gap would mean most were probably grammar schools, but not really private

Reply 9

eulerwaswrong

the grammar school system allowed for a lot better social climbing than the current system. Id hazard a guess quite a few were

Reply 10

paneity

eulerwaswrong

the grammar school system allowed for a lot better social climbing than the current system. Id hazard a guess quite a few were

In a sense, but it also condemned half the population to a fate at age 11, for a long time if you went to a comp you wouldn't be allowed to go to university. And more recently, grammar schools have become a staple of the middle classes, using them to save money on school fees by coaching for the 11+ or paying for a few years of private primary school.

The proportion of state school acceptances to oxbridge is much higher now than at any time in history, despite there being very few grammar schools. http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsg-00616.pdf I like the bit in that where it says in the 1850s you could get a scholarship to cambridge if you went to a 'cheaper' boarding school.