Private school students get into Oxbridge because they’re just smarter than state school students, a Sussex professor has claimed.
In a piece for ConservativeHome arguing that British society is already meritocratic, emeritus professor Peter Saunders writes: “The reason privately-educated kids get into Oxbridge in disproportionate numbers is that they are, on average, brighter.”
He adds: “This shouldn’t really surprise anybody (after all, these kids generally have very successful parents). Yet this is a truth which seemingly must never be acknowledged.”
A 2015 study found that students from state schools with A s at A-level tended to get better degrees than private school students with the same A-levels.
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