Monthly Archives: December 2010

Private school students are 55 times more likely to win a place at Oxbridge and 22 times more likely to go to a top-ranked university than students at state schools who qualify for Free School Meals.  New figures published today show the enormity of the challenge facing the Coalition Government to improve social mobility through broadening access to top-ranked universities.

Students from comprehensive schools are likely to achieve higher class degrees at university than independent and grammar school students with similar A-levels and GCSE results, a major study commissioned by the Sutton Trust and the Government shows.