FINANCIAL TIMES: Privileged students should face greater scrutiny despite A-grades

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Research has repeatedly shown that promising undergraduates from state schools with only so-so exam grades tend to go on to outperform more privileged children with better marks. As Steven Jones, senior lecturer in education at the University of Manchester, put it in a recent report comparing the final degrees of the different groups: “The full academic potential of high-ability state school children is not always realised until those children reach university.”