Michael Cassidy

scientists at the University of Oxford want to necessary to scrap the £75 fee, to the courses of study - argue that it is an "elitist" financial barrier.

The fee is not, and an internal E-Mail suggests Oxford £2m of applications Per year will be refunded, most of which were rejected.

There are complaints that the fee is "discriminatory" and drop the "excellent candidate".

However, Oxford says, a "growing number" of universities require a registration fee.

Michael Cassidy of the university ' s department of earth sciences, said: charging a fee for the application reinforces an image of the "elitist and arrogant".

to stop The Campaign of Oxford, collection of admission fees - Separate from tuition fees - was revealed by Higher Education , publication, research, Professional News.

in the Next month, the University "Community ", its sovereign body, to hear a resolution for a phase-out of the application of fees for the diploma courses, such as Master or doctoral studies.

staff at the University will say that the charge "undermining Oxford's efforts to promote diversity" and that there is "good evidence", that talented students, and to deter from trying a place.

There are some fee exemptions for disadvantaged applicants, But this campaign against the fees, saying that they "try a barrier", and to widen access to Oxford.

"This is something that came up in most of the years, where we had to tell applicants directly E-Mail to us, the fee was a barrier," professor of astrophysics Chris Lintott said research professional News.

He said the students would say: "Well, I'm not applying, because they charge a fee of £75. "

But an internal University E-Mail displayed to warn that the fee to the value of £2m Per year, and abolition would mean cutting services or finding The Money from other departmental budgets.

Oxford, says universities have to pay a fee at The Point of application for postgraduate courses.

Cambridge, University College London, Warwick and King's College London are among those, the fee for the application.

For undergraduate applications, the entry through the Ucas system, with the £25 fee you paid for usually by a school or College

A spokeswoman for Oxford University said, the fee for diploma applications helped to cover the costs of the processing of visitor numbers of 30,000 applicants Per year.

But She Said the abolition of the fee was "in accordance with the applicable policies of the University, which provide more and more exemptions to the current fee".

"the abolition of the fee likely to be significant implications for our graduate admissions and access activities. However, we appreciate the question discussed under the broad University Community . "

Source of news: bbc.com