An ex-comprehensive school pupil, the focus of an elitism row after Oxford University rejected her, has graduated from Cambridge.

Comic and Doctor Who star Catherine Tate says "exclusive" ticket prices are making London's West End theatre elitist.

Caitríona Ruane says she is disappointed by grammar schools planning to run independent entrance exams.

A protest movement against corruption and impunity in Brazil stirs passions and accusations of elitism, reports the BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo.

Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash claims the Lawn Tennis Association's National Tennis Centre reinforces the sport's elitist image.

The Bar Council is offering bank loans and placements to help students from ordinary backgrounds become barristers.

Students at Oxford and Cambridge are accused of elitism for not taking part in a national student satisfaction survey.

Poetry is perennially on the ropes, a pensive, esoteric artform in a world absorbed by novelty and new media. But Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says it can resonate with all ages and an unlikely ambassador for the young is a certain Pete Doherty.

Its creator has died but the famous blue-green Chinese Girl image lives on. To some it is kitsch, to others genius.

BBC's Iain Carter on elitism in golf, ball technology and the Masters

Entertainer Stephen Fry has criticised the 'ridiculous sense of elitism' at Cambridge University. Is he right?

As part of our Write For Us series, Ian Murray bemoans the way bus lanes are used in Glasgow.

Actor and director Stephen Fry is awarded an honorary degree from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

The higher education minister attacks "elitism" of those oppose widening access to university.

Is the Wales Millennium Centre a new landmark for the arts in Wales, or a white elephant? Send us your views.

The Prince of Wales's household is "hierarchical and elitist", an employment tribunal hears.

The America's Cup is in danger of excluding anyone but the mega-rich.

The Scottish university attended by Prince William is offering scholarships to pupils from state schools.

Two days before the results are published, schools standards minister David Miliband accused critics of A-level standards of "elitism". Do you agree?

The Archbishop of Wales warns against the church becoming "an elitist religious club" in his Easter sermon.