It’s a sad case, but unfortunately, some industries in particular do take a massive interest in where a potential employee was schooled. We are not talking about the grades that they received, the actual school they attended.

This year again showed that privately educated students continue to dominate Oxbridge intakes, the government, and the media. This could be seen as discrimination against those students whose parents could not afford a private education, basically stating that they will not be as good. You can have an extremely bright and capable student that has attended a state school that would be as good as if not better than someone that attended a private school, surely it should be more down to grades and attitude?

Ways in which this can be measured and tracked to ensure that every pupil has the same rights is currently being debated so we will have to wait to hear the outcome.