The Sutton Trust was quoted by Rosemary Bennett in an article on university admissions in The Times.

More universities are set to discriminate positively in favour of students from state schools when a study is published this month showing that some are outperforming private school students in their finals.

The long-awaited study, the biggest of its kind, has found there is some evidence that state school students are getting more 2:1s and first class degrees.

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Conor Ryan, from the Sutton Trust which helps to support bright pupils from underprivileged backgrounds to get into the best universities, said the Government should have a nationalstrategy: “Most universities are eager to bring in young people from state schools where there isn’t the same tradition of achievement, and what this evidence is pointing to is that some allowance in terms of grades doesn’t have any impact on their ability to achieve at degree level, indeed quite the reverse.”

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