英国前首相布莱尔在任期间,曾为一名女孩的入学问题,亲自向牛津大学求情。这名女孩出生于苏格兰边远地区一个教育落后的郡,中学毕业考试成绩全A,是近百年来当地第一个达到牛津录取线的毕业生。女孩顺理成章地申请了牛津大学,然而参加面试时,教授们却认为,该学生不具备牛津大学要求的创造潜质,故而拒绝了她的入学申请。女孩家乡的政府部门对此事极为重视,专程找到教育大臣,请他出面说情。教育大臣认为,如果女孩能进入牛津深造,不仅对于落后地区的教育是个激励,对于英国 During his tenure as a former British Prime Minister Blair, he pleaded with the University of Oxford for admission to a girl. The girl was born in a less educated county in remote Scotland. She graduated from high school with a high school grade A, and was the first graduate to reach the Oxford admission line in nearly a hundred years. The girl applied to the University as a matter of course, but at the interview, the professors thought that the student rejected her admission because she did not have the creative potential that Oxford needed. The government department of the girl’s hometown attaches great importance to this matter and made a special trip to find the Minister of Education and asked him to come forward and express her feelings. The Minister of Education believes that if girls can enter Oxford for further education, it is not only an incentive for education in the backward areas but also for Britain