Oxbridge = Inaccessible to most students?

That could compound the problem.

Why would you let in more people from low wealth counties if you are going to get less income from them via a tax? You’d purposely target high wealth counties/regions to ensure you got more money as a university.

They already do that. The problem is here already and isn't waiting in the wings.
Only a tiny proportion of counties are benefiting from Oxbridge. If we cut the funding from counties like Teeside, Merseyside, the whole of Wales and all the other places the education system discriminates against, it would decimate Oxbridge funding and they'd have no choice other than to sharpen up their act.

And for those people who say it should all be on merit, I agree. The bright kids from the North have been discriminated against for years. This would put a stop to that.

Universities are primarily funded by student tuition fees so this doesn't apply.

The other source is research funding, which again isn't regionally sourced.



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They still get about a fifth from the Government. If you cut this to represent the demographic of the Oxbridge intake, they'd feel the pinch.

I don't have the number to hand but I expect it's lower for Oxbridge. They have endowments and much higher research income than most universities.

I wonder if Manchester mainly gets its students from the North West?

There’s an interesting take on the matter here:

https://highpeakdata.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/oxbridge-admissions-student-mobility-and-the-need-for-an-oxbridge-of-the-north/

It is only for one subject, but this map indicates your suspicions are likely to be correct:

http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/international-students/students-map/

You can zoom in.

Why is everyone so fixated on just Oxford and Cambridge?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41664459
...OK, so I've hardly come up with Fermat's Last Theorem there, but according to FOI data acquired by David Lammy (a Labour MP), Oxford and Cambridge are understood to be mostly sending offers to the more well-off regions of England (mostly southern, some northern - about half of ALL offers go to those in London and the south-east). Around 80% of applicants are also understood to be in the top two social classes.

Point of consideration: Is Oxbridge really turning more inaccessible, is this a case of same-old-same-old, or is this just a quirk in the system?

The geography/proximity argument is probably as much down the wealth of the surrounding areas rather than convenience of travelling to Oxford/Cambridge. It's a bit of a red herring. Kids in Teeside don't apply because their educations are not as well funded as kids in Herts, Bucks, etc. It's no excuse despite what some people may try to say.

You either believe that for solid reasons and will come up with some evidence to back it up, or you'll just be throwing in an unsupported assertion based on nothing more than supposition in the hope that someone will accept what you say.

So the education system in Britain basically consists of 13 years of systematically unequal primary and secondary education, after which we demand the universities undo all of that in just a few years. Sure, Oxbridge need to somehow do more, but we should deal with the problem at its source.