Writing for The Times, Greg Hurst reports on new Sutton Trust findings regarding teacher’s educational backgrounds.

About 11,000 graduates from Oxford or Cambridge now teach in state-funded schools — a number that has doubled in a decade.

The figures released yesterday show that work by successive governments to attract more of the brightest graduates into the classroom appears to have paid off.

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