Laura Clark reports for the Daily Mail on Sutton Trust figures highlighted on our blog showing which schools and colleges dominate Oxbridge admissions.

Five top schools send as many pupils to Oxford and Cambridge as 1,800 state schools put together, a new analysis has revealed.

A small group of elite schools is tightening its grip on the country’s most prestigious universities as wealthy families spend increasing sums on education.

Three well-known private schools and two elite sixth-form colleges supplied 260 Oxbridge entrants in 2011/12 – the same number as 1,800 state schools across England.

Read the full article here. Read Lee Elliot Major’s blog on this issue here.

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