Private pupils grab top courses. Except they don't.
If you read this link you will see a story on the BBC showing how public (or independent) school pupils are given preferential access to the top universities.
You will read how only 54% of places at Oxford and a mere 57% of places at Cambridge are given to sixth form students from state schools and colleges.
It's shocking, except it's all damn lies and statistics.
You see the same article mentions that independent sixth forms have 23% of all sixth form students and that 30% of them get 3 A's at A-level, compared to 7% in the remaining 77% of sixth form pupils attending state schools.
Doing some quick maths we come to the conclusion that just over 56% of all pupils who achieve 3 A grades at A-level come from independent schools, if anything they are _under_ represented at the country's top universities.
Being an old boy I'm used to the kind of vitriol which my parents caring about my education brings about in other people. I mean, it's not like my parents have ever criticised someone for sending their children to public school (like Diane Abbott) so what's the problem? It's never made me a member of the ruling class, it hasn't given me an aversion to physical labour, I don't think I'm out of touch with anyone, so why the inverse snobbery? Jealous much?
You will read how only 54% of places at Oxford and a mere 57% of places at Cambridge are given to sixth form students from state schools and colleges.
It's shocking, except it's all damn lies and statistics.
You see the same article mentions that independent sixth forms have 23% of all sixth form students and that 30% of them get 3 A's at A-level, compared to 7% in the remaining 77% of sixth form pupils attending state schools.
Doing some quick maths we come to the conclusion that just over 56% of all pupils who achieve 3 A grades at A-level come from independent schools, if anything they are _under_ represented at the country's top universities.
Being an old boy I'm used to the kind of vitriol which my parents caring about my education brings about in other people. I mean, it's not like my parents have ever criticised someone for sending their children to public school (like Diane Abbott) so what's the problem? It's never made me a member of the ruling class, it hasn't given me an aversion to physical labour, I don't think I'm out of touch with anyone, so why the inverse snobbery? Jealous much?