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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.'
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Diversifying the media must start in classrooms, not newsrooms
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.
Academies could be ‘harming the prospects of their disadvantaged students’
Many academy chains would be classified as 'coasting' by the government's new standards
Private school kids will earn £200,000 more
Children who attend private school will earn almost £200,000 more that state school pupils in the first 16 years of their career.
Fewer state school pupils attending top universities
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.
State school students more likely to achieve a First at Oxford than independent schoolers
Evidence shows students from state schools are more likely to achieve a first-class degree at Oxford University than students from independent schools.