The Sutton Trust is quoted by Richard Adams in his Guardian report of new DFE research on higher education admissions.

Comprehensive school pupils should be allowed into universities on the back of lower GCSE and A-level grades than students from grammars and fee-paying private schools, according to new research.

A study commissioned by the Department for Education concludes that students from comprehensives with equivalent GCSE and A-level grades outperformed their more expensively educated peers at university.

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“This valuable research confirms the importance of students getting good advice on their subject choices at school,” said James Turner, director of programmes at the Sutton Trust, which campaigns on the need to widen university participation.

“It also shows there is an ‘achievement against the odds’ effect – students getting to university in spite of attending a poorer school are more likely to do well once they get there.”

Read the full report here.

James Turner was also quoted in a column by Barbara Ellen in the Observer here.