Education
Snow was educated at independent school, Ardingly College, where his father was headmaster. He later attended the independent St Edward's School in Oxford. When he was 18 he spent a year as a VSO volunteer teaching in northern Uganda.
After mixed success in his first attempt to pass his A level qualifications, he moved to the Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough, where he later obtained the necessary qualifications to gain a place studying law at the University of Liverpool. However, he did not complete the degree, being rusticated for his part in an anti-apartheid student protest, which he later described as "an absolute watershed in my life". However he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Liverpool University in 2011.
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