Once upon a time, in a far-off country, the government and universities became very concerned that not enough people from less privileged backgrounds were going to universities to study for degrees in mathematics, engineering, science, law, medicine, modern languages and other such disciplines.
At first the government accused the universities of discriminating unfairly, but the universities said that in order to study these demanding degree courses, students needed certain A level subjects and to have passed them at high grades.
A solution was found: a group of powerful universities published a list of subjects: mathematics, further mathematics, English literature, biology, chemistry, physics, history, geography and classical and modern languages.
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