State entrants to elite club benefit from easier access.

State entrants to elite club benefit from easier access.

Ecole publique- Ecole privée secondaire. But private pupils do not suffer discrimination, expert argues. State school pupils are gaining places at the UK’s most selective universities with lower grades on average than their independent peers, new figures show. An analysis of A-level grades held by students entering Russell Group universities shows that students from state schools have significantly weaker grades on average than their private contemporaries. More than half (52 per cent) of the qualifications held by independent school pupils entering 19 of the group’s 24 research-intensive universities in 2010-11 were either A* or A at A level, but this fell to 42 per cent among state entrants.

Source : Jacke Grove, THE, 21 février 2013.

 

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