Banker is told he cannot buy son a place at Oxford

THERE WAS a time when each year a number of places at Oxford University were reserved for the offspring of major benefactors. But money no longer appears to provide any such guarantee after it emerged that one of the university's most generous donors had withdrawn a pledge of £100,000 and severed links with his old college after it rejected his son.

Philip Keevil, a prominent City banker who has already given more than £100,000 to the university over the past 15 years, expected his generosity to be rewarded with preferential treatment for his children.

"Universities have perhaps not yet realised that they can only really raise money from the old members. That means they have to feel they belong and they are being fairly treated", he said.

Today his son, a British state school pupil won a scholarship to study at Harvard University in the United States.

The Independent

September, 2 2003

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