Malala excited after winning place at Oxford University

Published August 18, 2017
MALALA Yousafzai has been accepted for the course also studied by Benazir Bhutto.—AFP
MALALA Yousafzai has been accepted for the course also studied by Benazir Bhutto.—AFP

BIRMINGHAM: Education activist Malala Yousafzai said on Thursday she was “excited” after winning a place to study at the University of Oxford.

In a tweet on Thursday, Ms Yousafzai said she had been accepted at Oxford to study politics, philosophy, and economics. She joined thousands of other students in Britain and around the globe in discovering where they will go to university after getting their final school results.

Others to have studied the same course at Oxford, one of the world’s top universities, include former British prime minister David Cameron and the late prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, now 20, came to prominence when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head in 2012, after she was targeted for her campaign against efforts by the Taliban to deny women education. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 when she was 17.

“So excited to go to Oxford!! Well done to all A-level students — the hardest year. Best wishes for life ahead!” she said in a tweet from her official verified account @Malala. A-levels are final year exams for school students.

After recovering from the Taliban attack, she has attended a school in Birming­ham, England.

Early figures showed a fall in the number of places allocated by universities, although the proportion of students scoring top grades rose.

Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) said on its website the decrease in the number of university acceptances had been driven by a fall in acceptances from older students and fewer students from the European Union.

UCAS said 416,310 people had been accepted to degree courses on the A-level results day, down 2 per cent compared to 2016.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2017

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