“Only” 50% of Oxbridge places go to the 7% of students from private schools, and since lots of private schools aren’t that good, most probably come from an even smaller pool of talent.
Even better to have a proper programme of investment in state schools - buildings, resources and teachers - so that the ‘higher flyers’ aren’t taken away to some sort of elite institution, leaving the rest to feel discarded as second best, while removing all tax/charity/donation privileges from private schools to help ‘levelling up’. Bit socialist radical I guess, but …
Spot on! Britain needs an end to the cycle of purchased privilege.
Even better to have a proper programme of investment in state schools - buildings, resources and teachers - so that the ‘higher flyers’ aren’t taken away to some sort of elite institution, leaving the rest to feel discarded as second best, while removing all tax/charity/donation privileges from private schools to help ‘levelling up’. Bit socialist radical I guess, but …
but...
True nonetheless.