Corruption

If I remember correctly, Pembroke College Oxford was the only one to accept the bribe

To be honest, I think you may be being a bit naive. To get someone an offer is a case of bribing the right people. The key person is obviously the admissions tutor and you'd pay her to a) give your child high marks at interview and b) make sure that the second interview is also conducted with a sympathetic (bribed) tutor. Then you pay another tutor to write the written work that's submitted in support of the application.

Because the interviews aren't taped, that would be enough to shift a moderate student up into the offer range and no-one would be any the wiser. As long as the chap isn't a complete dunce, it would be shrugged off if they under-perform later. It's also possible to 'assist' the person while at colleg, at least until exam time.

There would be the written work and the interview scores to support any questions about the decision. It's likely that they might decide the chap had a good day at interview and maybe had some help with the written work. Hey, it's hardly as if the latter is completely unknown.

Of course, if the prospective applicant's grades are crap then it's much more glaring and they'd still need to make the offer grades. After all, an EE offer to a dummy is not going to bear much scrutiny. Still, with careful A-level selevction (heavy on coursework) even that could be managed.

Overall cost? Maybe £20k-30k.

If I cant pay you with money, would my body count?

I once thought that administrations in England were corruption-free (people told me that), especially the world-renowned British education; but now it seems I will have to alter my view

What, because of an isolated incident that happened 3 years ago? It isn't even the Insitutution acting as whole, but just two individuals. The reporter tried at other colleges first, and was told no. Pembroke's tutors were the only ones that accepted.

So do you mean such corruptions at minor scales are nothing?

Would you be able to get away with paying for the salary of a professor for three years.

Like, for medical research?

Very clear and concise brief description of how it could be done

I think I aren't naive - look at the country from which I come, you know corruption is not strange to me. It is the "bribability" of the famed Oxbridge education that surprises me! I once thought that administrations in England were corruption-free (people told me that), especially the world-renowned British education; but now it seems I will have to alter my view

So do you mean such corruptions at minor scales are nothing and we should stay still contemplating them, not to show our expression recklessly before it evolves into an epidemy?

As for the idea that £30k would buy you an EE offer for a complete dummy...

In reality, bribery at the scale we're talking(£300,000) is extremely unlikely to actually happen. Even somebody with more money than sense wouldn't bribe Oxford tutors £300,000 in a very dodgy deal, when they could just pay a £250,000 official donation to Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT and get an official place.

Well that is assuming that they would prefer or be equally happy at an American university.

In reality, bribery at the scale we're talking(£300,000) is extremely unlikely to actually happen. Even somebody with more money than sense wouldn't bribe Oxford tutors £300,000 in a very dodgy deal, when they could just pay a £250,000 official donation to Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT and get an official place.