There’s been a bit of concern about the plight of independent school students in applying to university.
The Telegraph for instance, on just one day last October reported that “top private schools” are seeing their Oxbridge success rate plummet – and reported with barely concealed horror revealed that “state school pupils are now more likely to get a place” at Cambridge than their privately educated peers.
If you’re one of the round about 94 per cent of people in the UK who attended a state school, it can be difficult to manage much sympathy here. Private school pupils are already over-represented proportionally at university, and particularly so at Oxbridge and some other selective providers.
Squaring this perceived reality with the rhetoric around parents withdrawing students from an independent school to take A level exams at a state provider of FE college is difficult. And data is hard to come by.
