Oxford Brookes has become one of just eight remaining teams in the BBC’s University Challenge after beating Christ’s College Cambridge in the quarter-final last Monday.
The team have been training for five months with coach Dr Ian Bayley, a Senior Lecturer in Computing and former DPhil student of Balliol College. He has appeared on the show twice himself, in 1997 and 2001, when working for other universities.
Dr Bayley said that “the team’s talent was apparent” from the early stages. He remarked that “this is a great result against one of the country’s top universities and it shows how incredibly talented our students can be.”
The team was helped by Oxford University students, being invited to take part in Oxford’s Intercollegiate Quiz and taking on Exeter and St John’s in practice matches.
Oxford’s Magdalen College is also through to the quarter finals of the competition.
