> You also end up with a very narrow program of study
This just isn't true in my area (Physics), the courses at Oxbridge are just as broad but go much deeper than you'd study in another University.
I don't think it's true of written subjects either, from friends that studied there it sounds like the cranking out of essays is weekly or more at Oxbridge whereas my housemates at University were doing termly stuff.
By narrow program of study I don’t mean “breadth within the discipline” I mean “credit for work outside the discipline”. My son is studying maths but has taken two semesters of biblical Greek, previously did a music subject and this term is doing Hebrew. Can’t do that at Oxbridge.
This just isn't true in my area (Physics), the courses at Oxbridge are just as broad but go much deeper than you'd study in another University.
I don't think it's true of written subjects either, from friends that studied there it sounds like the cranking out of essays is weekly or more at Oxbridge whereas my housemates at University were doing termly stuff.