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Additional point - we also need to do a lot more to 'narrow the gap' so that more kids from very poor background are actually getting to aged 18 with the prospect of top grades and going somewhere like Oxbridge, but that's a slightly separate issue to changing the curriculum (and needs to go way...

Well, that's a very interesting take on it. Gove wanted to make state schools "better" in that 'get them ready for Oxbridge' sense, right from an early age. Which might have benefited 1% of students across the country and destroyed the end product for the other 99%. The state education system...

But there is still a massive skew, as 37% of the cohort going into university education are not privately educated.

I agree with the sentiment here, but in practice the issue is that those from private schools still have a massive advantage when it comes to getting into Oxbridge. The colleges themselves might want to increase the level of state school youngsters applying, but the admissions criteria (and I...