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Janet Downs: 93% of Britain’s children are victims of discrimination. Why? Because they are state educated

“Unleashing aspiration: the Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions” (2009): “…although only 7% of the population attend independent schools, well over half the members of many professions have done so. For example, 75% of judges, 70% of finance directors, 45% of top civil servants, and 32% of MPs were independently schooled.” The Panel found that the ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by andy: ""The survey concluded: “…that private education does, indeed, perpetuate a form of separate development in Britain, or ‘social apartheid’.” Separate development is in no way shape or form the same as "apartheid". In the legal sense the latter is enshrined ......"

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Allan Beavis: Is the government bringing back covert selection to push out the disadvantaged?

So, the education bill will abolish the right of parents and students to complain to the local government ombudsman and instead replace it with a procedure via Michael Gove, the education secretary. Even worse, The chief school’s adjudicator’s powers to investigate and order changes to school admissions policies are being greatly reduced (despite the fact that that 92% of the ... read more and comment →

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Nigel Ford: Should universities discriminate in favour of state school pupils?

Now when I say state schools I mean comprehensive and 6th form colleges rather than grammar schools. We're forever being told that Oxbridge and other Russell group universities has a far higher proportion of public school pupils despite only 7% of the school age population attending these schools and we know that this isn't necessarily due to superior teaching in the ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Francis Gilbert: "I've become more in favour of positive discrimination as I've heard more and more stories from students coming from difficult backgrounds. Take Mohammed who attended a failing comprehensive in Milton Keynes who got into Oxford with weak GCSE grades on ......"

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