…repetitive’. …… It comes after a report by the Sutton Trust found many areas of public life are still overwhelmingly dominated by people who went to private schools. Around 42…
Privately educated ‘still dominate professions’
…“Our research shows that your chances of reaching the top in so many areas of British life are very much greater if you went to an independent school. “As well…
Britain’s got talent: are we recognising all of it?
…popular stereotypes. Successful soul singers such as Adele are all the more credible for coming from gritty working class backgrounds. Yet soul searching of another kind occurred when it became…
Admissions Omissions
…educated, more than 40 per cent of successful Oxbridge applicants are. The obligation to change this, however, falls on schools. In the first instance, not enough state school pupils are…
Written question on Private Pay Progression
…if not better, at university, graduates from less privileged backgrounds are less likely to enter the professions. To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the…
Are private tutors for children just the latest educational ‘arms race’?
…both state and private sectors. This year a survey found that 62% of parents of children sitting the 11-plus exam for grammar school entry in England had employed private tutors….