"Bright children from poor homes are failing to get into university because of under-performing state schools and not class bias.That is the finding of a major study, covering hundreds of thousands of children, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Pupils at struggling comprehensives are getting such low grades they are simply not equipped for degree-level studies, it revealed."
Forget the usual hype from the left - this is exactly what thinking people have known for decades and had predicted when the grammar schools were first placed on the sacrificial altar.
