Talk:Harris Manchester College, Oxford

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Contesting Harris Manchester is the only college in U.K. Higher Education dedicated solely to the education of mature students. -- see Hughes Hall, Cambridge; Wolfson College, Cambridge; St Edmund's College, Cambridge for other examples.

• I have heard tales that there are other colleges OUTSIDE (!!) of Oxford and Cambridge (such as Birkbeck College, London) fulfilling a similar role for mature students, although this is so shocking that I can hardly believe it myself. Can anyone substantiate this wild rumour? ;-) Badgerpatrol 02:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• I'm pretty certain that Birkbeck takes non-mature students (it only offers part-time courses, and it used to [I don't know if it still does] only take students who had a job). I don't know of any other college that takes only mature students; do you have any other examples in mind?

Graduate Colleges don't count, of course; the notion of a mature student applies only to undergraduates (the definition used to be that they had to be twenty-five or over; under twenty-five but with full-time jobs counted as Independent students. Again, I'm not sure of the current regulations). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:08, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Lucy Cavendish at Cambridge only takes mature female students, both undergraduate and graduate. Accordingly, sentence removed. - CJW