As Theresa May calls for more selection to help disadvantaged pupils, evidence emerges showing the entrance exam is intrinsically unfair on them https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/12/tutor-11plus-test-grammar-schools-disadvantaged-pupils
DetailsFrom racist ‘banter’ to Eurocentric history degrees, higher education is haunted by Britain’s colonial past. But what does it mean to students? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/06/how-britains-old-empire-lives-on-in-universities
DetailsParents whose children fail the 11-plus ‘will choose to pay fees rather than see them get a second-rate state education’ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/10/grammar-schools-middle-class-boost-private-education
DetailsStatistics cast doubt on Theresa May’s claim that new policy has social mobility at its heart https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/09/disadvantaged-children-under-represented-in-grammar-schools
DetailsCompletion rates for students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds still relatively lower when compared with others http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/Studies/dropout-retention-rates-at-universities-in-england-social-market-foundation-staying-the-course-a7228186.html
DetailsOne doctor reflects on what he would do differently to avoid the errors he made in his Cambridge University interviews http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/oxford-cambridge-university-answering-interview-questions-admissions-test-how-to-get-into-oxbridge-a7218206.html
DetailsSurvey findings come at a time similar research has painted a bleak picture of student finances for the 2016/17 academic year http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/finances/freshers-week-2016-bank-of-mum-and-dad-to-spend-58-billion-over-coming-academic-year-a7231951.html
DetailsUncertainty over research funding and immigration rules blamed for decline, as Cambridge slips out of top three for first time https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/05/uk-universities-fall-world-rankings-brexit-concerns
DetailsLizzie Deane loved her time at Stretford grammar in Manchester but says she would have done as well at a comprehensive https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/09/fundamental-flaw-grammar-schools-ex-pupil-manchester
DetailsVeterans of the bruising process who have sat the aptitude tests, stressed over the personal statements and sobbed afterwards shed light on the same interview rooms which will be open again in just a few months http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/oxford-cambridge-university-admission-interview-application-how-to-get-into-oxbridge-a7216741.html
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