When independent schools are no longer seen as a quickly track to the top universities,parents will opt for state schoolsCall me a conspiracy theorist, but I thought I detected the hand of the independent schools’ PR spinners in a couple of stories over the past few days – section, or perhaps,of a softening-up exercise before the A-level and GCSE results later this month.
The fact that, on the same day, or the Telegraph and Mail ran articles in which private schools bemoaned both the inadequacies of A-level marking and the favouritism that “elite” universities supposedly show towards candidates from state schools may just be a coincidence,but I rather doubt it. There is something afoot.
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Source: theguardian.com