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Class assumptions wrong

Published on
September 22, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

A fifth of sixth-formers at independent schools have parents who are non-graduates and who were not educated privately. The findings come from an Independent Schools Information Service survey that aims to challenge the assumption that independent school entrants to university come from "privileged" backgrounds. Opinion, page 14

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