Comrades at/who've been to Oxford University

[YKTMX]

I'm going to University of Oxford in October.

Anything any comrades who are/have been there want to give me a heads-up about? Anybody from the town want to suggest any hell-holes or dens of sedition I could frequent.

I guess I might get advice on RevLeft not available on the Uni website.

Anyway

Cheers

:thumbup1:

[Lyev]

Just a heads up, you might be accused of bourgeois decadence and such forth for going to Oxford.

[Invincible Summer]

*Comment about bourgeois decadence*

[YKTMX]

Just a heads up, you might be accused of bourgeois decadence and such forth for going to Oxford.

That's fine. I'm sure I'll survive.

[Dr Mindbender]

I'm going to University of Oxford in October.

Anything any comrades who are/have been there want to give me a heads-up about? Anybody from the town want to suggest any hell-holes or dens of sedition I could frequent.

I guess I might get advice on RevLeft not available on the Uni website.

Anyway

Cheers

:thumbup1:

Going to oxbridge makes you a toff and by extension liable for auto-restriction/banning.

Case in point being bobkkkindles who is now banned.

[scarletghoul]

Oxford is the most working class area in the UK, and the center of the world's proletarian forces. bobkkkindles can vouch for this, he's toiled in the intellectual mines of oxford for all his working life

Anybody from the town want to suggest any hell-holes or dens of sedition I could frequent.
The whole place is like a massive crack den tbh, just be sure to carry a knife with you and dont look anyone in the eye.

[Kléber]

Oxford is the most working class area in the UK, and the center of the world's proletarian forces. bobkkkindles can vouch for this, he's toiled in the intellectual mines of oxford for all his working life
Your avatar contains the color green. This is known to be a known symbol of capitalism. Yet you run your mouth about a banned guardist, thus speaking ill of the banned. It's time we analyzed you from the perspective of class struggle.

http://images.tdaxp.com/tdaxp_upload/smash_liu_deng_md.jpg

[red cat]

Your avatar contains the color green. This is known to be a known symbol of capitalism. Yet you run your mouth about a banned guardist, thus speaking ill of the banned. It's time we analyzed you from the perspective of class struggle.

http://images.tdaxp.com/tdaxp_upload/smash_liu_deng_md.jpg

What did your banned comrade speak of our third world CPs ? They are banned too. So while your extremely revolutionary parties can have their members posting here, our CPs can't. Making a big deal out of being banned from a site ? Ever imagined what it is like to be banned from every city and village ?

[Bright Banana Beard]

speaking ill of the banned. The banned are still alive and able to change their opinion or life, thus we can criticize them through different way of communication.

[Kléber]

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/files/2007/12/talk-to-the-hand.jpg

talk to the hand. free bobk

[RHIZOMES]

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/files/2007/12/talk-to-the-hand.jpg

talk to the hand. free bobk
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[Bright Banana Beard]

My point stills stand.

[Guerrilla22]

I wish I had rich parents to pay for me to attend oxford. I had to settle for Brown University. :(

[Jazzratt]

Surely you could have asked the rest of the top hat clad tossers in the SWP?

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lol

[GPDP]

Didn't Bob "Enter key? What enter key?" Kindles go to Oxford?

[Bright Banana Beard]

He still attend Oxford.

[black magick hustla]

I wish I had rich parents to pay for me to attend oxford. I had to settle for Brown University. :(
lol

[black magick hustla]

tbh i think oxford grad school is free provided you are an uk citizen.

[Devrim]

tbh i think oxford grad school is free provided you are an uk citizen.

No, you have to pay to go to university in the UK nowadays.


From the academic year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_year) 2006/7, a new system of fees was introduced in England. These variable tuition fees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-up_fees) of up to £3000 per year are paid up-front as previously, but new student loans are available that may only be used to pay for tuition fees, and must be repaid upon graduation, in addition to the existing loan. In fact, there is very little variation in the fees charged by universities — nearly all charge the maximum fee on all courses.

The interesting thing about the Oxbridge universities is that they run their own entrance exam in addition to the normal UK UCAS system. This basically allows them to select 'the right sort of people'.

10 years ago there was a girl, Laura Spence, who despite having perfect qualifications (10 GCSE grade As and 4 A level grade As) was refused entry to Oxford, as she "did not show potential".

Cambridge has slightly more students from the state education sector than the private sector, 57% to 43% , but it should be born in mind that 93% of children in the UK study in the state sector. This figure is misleading though as most pupils who are accepted from state schools come from 'elite' grammar and selective schools, rather than comprehensives, the type of school that most people in the UK go to and that Ms Spence went to.

Devrim

[black magick hustla]

I know you have to pay for undergrad. But I think most academic grad schools are generally "free". Atleast this is the case for the States. (I would not have to pay to get a phd in physics, rather I work as a cheap research monkey for them and get my tuition waivered and a miserable stipennd)

[Raúl Duke]

I wish I had rich parents to pay for me to attend oxford. I had to settle for Brown University. :(

You are talking about Brown University in Rhode Island? hahaha


What are you talking about...if true, that still makes you pretty bourgie...relative to me who's having trouble paying for public university.

I actually wanted to/considered going to Brown...but couldn't because I'm not well-off enough for that kind of university (nor am I certain that I want to rake up a half-million debt by the time I finish college). Now I'm of the opinion that private-public doesn't matter...it's all a matter of getting a certification.

[YKTMX]

Not that it's important, but I'm not paying, I'm getting a graduate scholarship to go. My 'rich parents' - or, more specifically the single mother who raised me in a high rise flat - don't have the money to pay.

But, yeah...

[Raúl Duke]

That's good.

I wish I had a scholarship...well actually next semester I'm going to see some Pell grants go my way. Maybe, it depends on whats the final decision of my FAFSA but they got it and they predicted that I might be eligible for that.