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I certainly found that at university. We felt a bit sorry for some of the public school kids who found it a bit hard to keep up - especially those who were on closed awards from specific schools. Initiative wasn't their strong point, and the Oxford tutorial system meant doing a lot of your own...

I repeat: don't ban private schools. Make state schools so good that paying for a child's education is a waste of money. And if it means raising the top rate of tax to pay for it, then some of the people who had to pay extra would get a trade-off in that they wouldn't have to find all those...

Before the sentence of mine you quoted, I made a similar point about under-funding. We need to make state education for all students (not just an elite) so good that it doesn't make sense to pay for private education. But that would mean higher taxes. I went through state education to Oxford in...

Many good points. I believe that some Oxbridge admissions tutors are going into state schools and offering advice and trying to get more applications. The difficulty is that interviews are then often held by subject tutors, who may be less able/willing/knowledgeable to make allowances if...

There are two sides to this. First, the large percentage of people in top jobs (if you agree that they are top jobs) who went to public schools. You can argue that that represents unacceptable social engineering because it perpetuates an elite based on wealth (usually inherited) rather than...