Grammars accused of being ‘monopolised’ by rich as data reveals high private school intake and few poor pupils
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  • Mar 15, 2022
The Guardian view on selective sixth forms: elitism for teenagers
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  • Feb 20, 2022
Fiona Rintoul: Elitist schools work against common good
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  • Dec 16, 2021
Western: ‘elitist’ ministers want access cut to ‘hold on to power’
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  • Oct 1, 2021
The hysterical criticism of results show class-based elitism is alive and well
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  • Aug 19, 2021
Eventful week sees HE buffeted by spelling and campus re-opening rows
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  • Apr 19, 2021
John Humphrys blasted 'woke brigade' for universities' 'white, male, elite' fear
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  • Apr 19, 2021
It’s elitist to mark down bad spelling, universities insist
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  • Apr 12, 2021
University students will not be marked down for bad spelling because it would be elitist
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  • Apr 10, 2021
How to navigate choppy, elitist waters as a working-class academic
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  • Feb 5, 2021
The Eton paradox: how Britain’s most elite school went woke
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  • Nov 30, 2020
Confronting the elitist stranglehold of everyday reality
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  • Oct 28, 2020
Call to scrap 'elitist' Oxford application fee
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  • Feb 19, 2020
Class distinction: Are the UK's elites getting further away from the rest of the population?
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  • Jan 22, 2020
A comprehensive victory?
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  • Dec 19, 2019
Bust 'rich boys in top hats' myth, private schools told
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  • Nov 25, 2019
We must break the stranglehold private schools have on social mobility
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  • Oct 14, 2019
Private schools/Labour: Eton disorder
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  • Oct 13, 2019
Elite universities are too obsessed with tradition to tackle racism effectively | Clive Nwonka
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  • Oct 10, 2019
German GCSE skiing question highlights 'class biases'
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  • Sep 6, 2019
Scotland: ‘No merit’ in Labour plan to axe private education
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  • Aug 27, 2019
Private-school careers is freemasons for 11-year-olds
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  • Aug 23, 2019
Should we abolish private schools? (video)
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  • Aug 22, 2019
Elitist Britain: Segregation in schooling & privileged pathways to power
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  • Aug 8, 2019
How Oxbridge distorts British life
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  • Aug 1, 2019
Why are working class kids passed over for top jobs?
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  • Jul 30, 2019
Old school ties? The educational background of Boris Johnson’s cabinet
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  • Jul 29, 2019
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson's cabinet went to private schools
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Almost two-thirds of new cabinet attended independent schools
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson's Cabinet were privately educated, research says
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Boris Johnson’s cabinet is most privately-educated for generation, analysis finds
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  • Jul 25, 2019
As Boris Johnson – another Prime Minister who went to Eton – enters office, it's time to end private school privilege
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  • Jul 23, 2019
Tom Utley: I once shared Labour's wish to abolish private schools
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  • Jul 19, 2019
‘I’m not ashamed that Oxford is an elite institution – but we are not elitist’
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  • Jul 18, 2019
Abolishing private schools would not improve education
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  • Jul 18, 2019
Labour campaign to shut down private schools 'could cost taxpayers billions'
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  • Jul 17, 2019
Closing private schools will cost millions, Labour is told
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  • Jul 17, 2019
'Are they in waistcoats and tails? Condemn them!'
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  • Jul 16, 2019
Labour MPs and members launch bid to abolish BoJo's private school Eton College
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  • Jul 9, 2019
Labour activists call to abolish private schools after Boris Johnson’s likely election
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  • Jul 9, 2019
Abolish Eton: Labour groups aim to strip elite schools of privileges
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  • Jul 9, 2019
Not all private school pupils are mini versions of Boris Johnson
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  • Jul 9, 2019
‘Elitist’ school uniforms driving holiday poverty
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  • Jul 3, 2019
Abolishing private schools won't create a meritocracy
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  • Jul 1, 2019
Britain’s elites still look different from the society they serve
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  • Jun 26, 2019
Private schools need phasing out – and here’s how it can be done
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  • Jun 26, 2019
The Guardian view on social immobility: time to rebalance | Editorial
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  • Jun 25, 2019
ISC response to “Elitist Britain 2019” report
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain is still ruled by a privately educated elite. Let’s end this culture of deference | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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  • Jun 25, 2019
UK: Privately educated getting five times as many top jobs as the rest of us
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Elitist Britain – Sutton Trust/Social Mobility Commission report
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  • Jun 25, 2019
ASCL comment on ‘Elitist Britain’
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain's most powerful people 5 times more likely to go to private school
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Why are Britain’s most powerful positions still dominated by private school alumni?
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Elite five times more likely to have private education
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain ‘increasingly divided’ with most influential people five times more likely to have gone to private school
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  • Jun 25, 2019
More vice-chancellors with Oxbridge educations appointed
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain’s elite still drawn from fee-paying schools
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Private school and Oxbridge 'take top jobs'
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain's most powerful people 'more likely to have attended private school'
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain’s top jobs still in hands of private school elite, study finds
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Admissions shake-up call as report reveals lack of diversity in top roles
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Privately educated elite tightens its grip on politics and the professions
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Elitism in Britain, 2019
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Elitist Britain 2019
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Private schools offer a resolute riposte but scrutiny will increase
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  • Apr 26, 2019
Tackling the damage done to the UK by private schools | Letters
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  • Mar 20, 2019
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
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  • Feb 19, 2019
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
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  • Feb 18, 2019
What to do about Britain’s private school problem?
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  • Feb 15, 2019
State school pupils can race ahead | Letters
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  • Feb 8, 2019
Teaching all pupils to act more like Etonians won’t help solve inequality | Suzanne Moore
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  • Feb 7, 2019
The 7 per cent problem – how to address the domination of private schools
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  • Jan 30, 2019
The damage that private schools do to their pupils and to society | Letters
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  • Jan 28, 2019
Hasan Patel’s place at Eton will help break the vicious circle of privilege | Biba Kang
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Labour activist who called public school absurd wins place at Eton
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  • Jan 22, 2019
Schoolboy from East End council estate wins £76,000 to study at Eton
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  • Jan 21, 2019
A Classics education can drive social mobility
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  • Dec 19, 2018
How primary schools are the key to fixing Oxbridge inequality
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  • Dec 10, 2018
8 schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Just 8 'top schools' win more Oxbridge places than 2,900 others
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Eight of Britain's most elite schools sent 1,310 students to Oxbridge in three years, while 2,894 schools combined only sent 1,220
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Eton and Westminster among eight schools dominating Oxbridge
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Eight schools send more to Oxbridge than 2,800 rivals
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Elite schools send more students to Oxbridge than 2,900 schools combined
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Eight schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than three quarters of the rest of UK schools, report finds
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  • Dec 6, 2018
Eight schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools
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  • Dec 6, 2018
New Reform report on student access
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  • Nov 28, 2018
Improving access to elite universities remains slow
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  • Nov 28, 2018
More than 1,000 state schools have no applicants to elite schemes
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  • Nov 23, 2018
Can Westminster School ditch elitism with charity — and six outposts in China?
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  • Oct 15, 2018
Social mobility’s enemies
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  • Sep 27, 2018
Mum sparks debate after asking if she should send ‘genius’ state school-educated son to Eton to ‘meet the right people’
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  • Sep 19, 2018
‘Posh boys’: How English independent schools still run Britain
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Oxford, elitism and how to really tackle diversity | Letters
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  • May 24, 2018
Sathnam Sanghera: elitism, the Oxbridge access problem – and why I never felt I belonged at Cambridge
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  • Apr 14, 2018
Prof John Raftery writes for THE: Elitism is alive and well in most UK universities
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  • Mar 8, 2018
As a working-class student, I know degree pricing would entrench elitism | Ellie Fry
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  • Feb 21, 2018
Apprenticeships are for everyone, not just an ‘elite’
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  • Dec 30, 2017
Sneering at miners reflects a deeper malaise in our universities | Meg Kneafsey
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  • Dec 3, 2017
‘Working-class children get less of everything in education - including respect’
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  • Nov 21, 2017
The Oxford University college fighting elitism
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  • Nov 16, 2017
Reviewing higher education funding must not entrench the so-called 'Elite'
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  • Nov 9, 2017
Who’s Who study sheds new light on power of old boy network
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  • Oct 30, 2017
Boys’ public school dominance over British elite has 'diminished significantly' over time, study finds
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  • Oct 30, 2017
MPs demand urgent action from Oxbridge to widen admissions base
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Oxbridge uncovered: More elitist than we thought
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  • Oct 20, 2017
Universities must fight 'unfair' claims of elitism
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  • Aug 30, 2017
Let’s restrict the number of privately educated people in Britain’s elite | Ellie Mae O’Hagan
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  • Aug 7, 2017
Dispelling the myths around elite universities
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THE Universities Elitism
  • Aug 7, 2017
What a racket — state pupils miss out on tennis subsidies
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Times Private schools Elitism Sport Subsidies
  • Jun 4, 2017
The politician running schools in Wales answers the big questions facing our education system
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  • May 19, 2017
Who makes the cut?
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  • May 19, 2017
Government warned over ‘elitist’ grammar schools, as reforms to be announced next month
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  • Mar 12, 2017
Lower 11-plus pass mark for poorer pupils, government tells grammars
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  • Mar 11, 2017
'You’re talking nonsense!' Julia Hartley-Brewer rages at teacher's union rep in huge clash
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  • Mar 7, 2017
Schools accused of elitism based on sporting prowess
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  • Jan 27, 2017