Ruth, aged 10, set to enter Oxford Univ.

Press, 7 December 1981, Page 6

Ruth, aged 10, set to enter Oxford Univ.

NZPA London Ruth Lawrence looks set to become Britain’s youngest university student. At the age of 10 she has passed an entrance examination in mathematics to St Hugh’s, the Oxford women’s college. She learned at the weekend that she was top of some 500 entrants. Her final acceptance depends on her progress with five A level examinations she intends to sit in the next two years at Huddersfield Technical College, which admitted her as a part-time student with the usual intake of 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds in September. She is studying two days a week at the college for her A levels in physics and computer science. Ruth has been educated at her home in Halifax Old Road, Huddersfield, by her parents, Harry and Sylvia Lawrence, both computer experts. Mr Lawrence said that if Ruth was accepted at St Hugh’s the family might

have to move south, “but we are willing to do so.” “I would very much like to go to Oxford,” said Ruth. "I had to sit three papers for the entrance examination and although I was happy with two of them I was not sure about the third. “I think I could fit in at university and if I do, my eventual ambition is to be a research professor in maths.”