Cambridge college urged to drop ‘immoral’ private school recruitment drive

In the long term these courses are likely going to die out. Let's be honest here. The University education system is struggling to make money. Sixth forms and colleges are run on a shoestring. The wider economic climate in the UK isn't great for new graduates, let alone those with a degree in Greek.
About the only hope for these kinds of courses are that there are families wealthy enough to afford to pay for their offspring to attend University to study purely for the lulz. These kinds of folk do indeed exist.
Unless we are saying that heck yes, UK school leavers should all go to University, study any and all courses they like and it doesn't matter if there is no employment prospect attached to them? I mean that appears to be where we are heading now. It is all well and good saying student loans are a graduate tax but err... these billions aren't ever going to be paid off, are they?

In the long term these courses are likely going to die out.
Most Tory supporters seem obsessed with closing down anything they see as a 'pointless' degree subject with no career relevance. Except posh subjects that their kids take obviously. We are back to 'exclusive' again - ie. you will meet a better sort of person in a Classics class if they don't let the oiks in. God forbid, their daughters might marry someone who went to an ordinary school and doesn't know how to use a fish-fork.

Getting us all back to the original point of this thread :
If this College really is worried that it isn't getting enough applications to sustain its Greek, Classics, Music etc courses, then why is it not targeting ALL schools that have these subjects as a particular specialism at A level - ie. and not just some very posh and wealthy private schools? This is all about 'the right sort of student' - it clearly has nothing to do with academic aptitude at all.

Your question was answered by Mary Hockaday, the Master of the College:
"To be clear, there has been no change to our admissions policy or our commitment to widening participation, and we continue to work very hard to support and attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
We propose to add [my emphasis] some schools to our existing recruitment email lists to ensure we receive applications from talented students from all backgrounds. This activity does not affect our overall admissions policy."
The College states that it is simply adding some schools to its recruitment email list, not that it is targeting these schools exclusively. Presumably, there will be many state-maintained schools already on its lists.

'Some schools'. They have explicitly said that these will be specific elite private schools. This is not a College churning out a few extra marketing emails re. hard-to-fill courses to every school on their mailing list. This is deliberate targeting of already privileged applicants for nefarious reasons.