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Some critics interpreted the ads as a play on eugenics, the discredited belief that humanity could be improved through selective breeding.

It could help explain why more academically selective universities - described as "higher tariff" by Ucas - have enrolled more students this year and offered many courses through Clearing.

Taking on more UK students may offer some financial stability for those selective universities.

Eugenics is a discredited practice that essentially touted the idea of improving the human race through selective breeding.

In processing her separation from Blackstock, she said, she learned to be more outspoken and selective about the people with whom she chooses to share her life.