By Amy Taylor

Oxford University has announced it is going to consider factors such as potential students' postcodes, their schools' overall performance in GCSEs and A levels, if they have been looked after and if they have attended specific programmes for disadvantaged children when deciding whether to give them interviews (but not offers) according to a story in The Observer. 

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