A level results reveal widening gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students
‘Initial data show some worrying trends for educational inequality, with potential long-term implications for social mobility.’
‘Initial data show some worrying trends for educational inequality, with potential long-term implications for social mobility.’
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) also dismissed claims that ending tax breaks for private schools would lead to a mass exodus from the sector
‘It’s a scandal that in one of the world’s richest countries growing numbers of children are going without basics such as food and warm clothing.’
“He is defending the 7% of people who go to private schools, who are going to have a brilliant world of opportunities available to them, but failing to stand up for the 93% who do not.”
Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds
Journalism is a closed shop with 51% of top journalists having been privately educated and only 19% having attended a state comprehensive, in comparison to 90% of the general population.
Many academy chains would be classified as ‘coasting’ by the government’s new standards
Children who attend private school will earn almost £200,000 more that state school pupils in the first 16 years of their career.
A majority of Universities in the Russell Group, which is considered to encompass the best Universities in the country, have accepted fewer students from state schools in the most recent year on record than they did in 2010 – 2011.
Evidence shows students from state schools are more likely to achieve a first-class degree at Oxford University than students from independent schools.